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Final Copy II now available in American
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product, here are some facts to consider:

• ASDG's Art Department Professional
was named the "Best Image Processing
Program" for 1 992 by the readers of
Amazing Computing Magazine and "Best
Video Software" by Germany's Amiga Plus
Magazine.

• American Software And Hardware
Distributors and MicroPace Distributors
(the two largest Amiga ' software
distributors in North America) cite ADPro
and MorphPlus as the best selling
products of their kind.

• ADPro placed third among ALL Amiga'
software products on the MicroPace
1992 Top 50 Sellers List.

• The Post Group, one of the largest post
production houses in the world, has used
ADPro and MorphPlus in the production
of special effects for the prime time TV

show Quantum Leap and for major
motion pictures.

* Mark Swain, an AmigaWorld
reviewer (and animator for Foundation
Imaging, the creators of the special
effects for Babylon 5), said, "MorphPlus
produces the most realistic shape
shifting special effects 1 have ever seen
on a desktop."

• David Duberman, Executive Editor
of Video Toaster User, said in a
comparative review of Amiga"

morphing products, "MorphPlus is the
Rolls Royce of Amiga morphing
software... it will pay for itself with one
job."

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CONTENTS

VOLUME 9, NUMBER 9, SEPTEMBER 1993

FEATURES

A1200 Expansion: Choosing the

RIGHT PATH By Micheal Savoie 20

A careful upgrade strategy can make all
the difference in capitalizing on your
Amiga 1200's capabilities. Here's some
timely advice — plus buyer's guide info —
on expanding the newest Amiga.

Mass Appeal

By Tim Walsh and Sheldon Leemon 28

Three new releases from Commodore —
the A4OOO/03O, the A4091 SCSI-2 con-
troller, and the 1942 multisync moni-
tor — are making high-end computing
more powerful and more affordable.

Getting so Much Better All

THE TIME By Dave Johnson 32

A new generation of faster, more capa-
ble ink-jet and laser printers is trans-
forming mainstream primed output on
the Amiga. And, even better, prices are
going down as the quality goes up!

"Driver" Education

By Sheldon Leemon 39

To get the most from your primer, you
must master drivers and other software
that control its operation. Gel behind the
wheel in this hands-on course and learn
to drive your printer more effectively.

ARTICLES

The Musical Amiga, Opus 2

By Raymond Mlynczak 4 3

The final installment of our two-part
series on getting started in Amiga music
shows you bow to control the recording
process for the best playback results.

AW Profile: Video Toaster

at the Ballpark 90

The new Florida Marlins baseball team
inserted a Video Toaster in their open-
ing-day lineup, and the Amiga has been
lighting up the scoreboard ever since.

COLUMNS

Editor's Drawer

By Dennis Brisson 4

The editor notes that it's the people who

Get ready for an Amiga 1200 power breakthrough
with our survey of RAM expanders, accelerators,
FPUs, controllers, chicks, and other upgrades!

use it, not the hardware itself, that
makes the Amiga such a great machine.

Accent on Graphics

By Joel Hagen 54

Use DPaint animbrushes as painting tools,
as well as for animal ion. and add some
neat effects to your artistic repertoire.

VIDEO SUITE By Geoffrey Williams ..58
Tired of the high cost of a lot of today's
video-production tools? Well, train your
lens on these dozen top picks in video
freeware out there for the taking.

DEPARTMENTS

Overscan 6

News, newsmakers, new products, and
network happenings — die accent is on
"new" right here every mouth.

Help Key 86

Tim's got the fix for anything that's
"bugging" you or your Amiga.

The Last Word 96

Go ahead, make our day, send that letter
without delay!

REVIEWS

REAL 3D 2.0 (Reatsoft / Godfrey) .... 1 2
Unique 5-D creation and animation capa-
bilities in a dramatically revised version.

CHRITY 16 (Mierodeal) 14

16-bit sound sampling and playback,

SUPRATURBO 28 (Supra) 15

Ingenious low-cost A2000/500 accelerator.

Distant Suns 4.2 (VRL) 64

'Hie magical planetarium sim is back.

DEJAVUE (PreVue Technologies) 63

Remote com roller for the Video Toaster.

HyperCache Professional

(Silicon Prarie) 65

Software to speed up hard-disk access.

Zeus 68040 (PP&S) 68

Heavy-hilling accelerator/RAM/SCSI-2

i omrollei combo for the A2000.

Personal Paint 2.1

(Chanto I Haitex) 69

A paint/imagc-processing program that
could give DPaiut a run for its money.

GAMES

CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson 76

At last! Dr. O breaks on through to the
other side of ill's beastly shadows with
some final endgame secrets.

The Labyrinth

(Electronic Arts) 76

A mesmerizing graphics adventure game
developed with CD-ROM in mind.

Flashback (U.S. Gold) 78

Action/adventure with great animation.

SYNDICATE (Electronic Arts) ,.80

From the developers or Populous and
PowerMonger, this may be the best yet.

Short Takes 81

Capsule reviews of new Amiga games.

A W Product Information . 9 4

To contact the developer of any product
mentioned in this issue of AmigaWorld .
consult our all-in-one "Manufacturers'Dis-
tributors' Addresses" list.

cover photograph BY EDWARD jldice

AmigaWorld 3

EDITOR'S DRAWER

A spotlight on some of the real movers and
shakers in the Amiga industry.

LET'S GET PERSONAL

Sometimes, ihe computer industry is guilty of mega-
posturing. Bigger, better, faster, more power. In our
quest for increased speeds, more colors and memory,
larger displays and higher resolutions, we tend to become
entangled in the accoutrements of computing. We run the
risk of getting bogged down in numbers, specifications,
acronyms, and jargon, which is often used, not to explain,
but simply to impress. Every once in a while, we need to
focus on the people behind the machines.

The stories that I like best are about individuals who
have demonstrated creativity, determination, and skill in
applying technology in a significant and meaningful way
to their jobs and lives. Their inspiring stories illustrate the
use of the Amiga as a real-world problem-solver and tool.
The Amiga community is brimming with users who fall
into this category, and I'd like to introduce you to a few
salient examples.

Meet Joel Tessler (see profile on p. 90), who keeps fans
at Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium rocking 'n' cheering for
the hometown teams — the Miami Dolphins during loot-
ball season and Major League Baseball's newest team, the
Florida Marlins. He supplies the giant scoreboards at the
stadium with video, animation, and graphics via an Ami-
gaA'ideo Toaster system.

Those who don't relate to the glitz and shine of super
graphics may identify with Loren Eyrich, a Florida man
who traded in a successful, but sedentaiy desk job to take
to the back roads of America and chronicle his adventures
in a newspaper called Heartland Highways. His lone travel-
ing companion is — you guessed it — an Amiga computer,
which he uses to publish his quarterly journal.

Often cited as the backbone of the industry, user
groups are largely responsible for spreading the Amiga
gospel. One such group, the Amiga Computer Enthusiasts
of Stamford, CT, deserves special recognition for its inge-
nuity and enthusiasm in hosting a successful computer
show, called Amiga Spectrum '93. Not only did they cap-
ture the attention and imaginations of many inquisitive
area residents, but their videotape of the show should be
required viewing for other clubs planning similar events.

The needs and interests of Amiga users are diverse.
Whether you're a fan of flight simulators, or use your
Amiga to run a BBS or log onto your favorite on-line
service, you belong to a community of creative talents who
have discovered ways to use Amiga technology in real-
world situations. Animators, designers, musicians, and
educators are real people with real needs.

Users and their applications, rather than technological
achievements, drive the market. We need to be reminded
of this, lest we sometimes forget.

Dennis Brisson
Editor-in-Chief

AmigaWorld

Dale Strang, Publisher

Dennis Brisson, Editor-in-Chief

Daniel Sullivan, Executive Editor

Vinoy Laughner, Managing Editor

Barbara Gefvert, Senior Editor

Tim Walsh, Senior Editor/Reviews

Ann Record, Assistant Editor

Peter Olafson, Games Editor
Joel Hagen, Contributing Editor

Howard G. Hupp, .-4 rt Director
Laura Johnson, Assistant Art Director

Ann Dillon, Designer
Alarm Korda, Manufacturing Manager

Michael McGoldrick, Advertising Director

Barbara Hoy, Sales Representative

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4 September 1 99 3

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• Simple, intuitive mouse-driven software control panels. Full
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• Software selection or mixing of 2 audio inputs with bass and
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• Full ECS/AGA support for full compatibility with new A1200
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OVERSCAN

News, A/ew Products and Networks

Back to the Amiga Basics

This fall, back to school means back to the
Amiga keyboard for the students at
Moriarty Elementary School in New Mexico.
At the school's Computer Learning Center,
the walls are lined with 25 A500s, each with
an extra floppy drive and a 1084S monitor
that's been modified to accept headphones.
Shannon Chancellor, who is in charge of the
computer program, sits prominently in the
center of the room with an Amiga on her
desk, as well. Her active involvement in the
computer sessions is crucial, because as she
says, "IF the teacher is not involved, then the
kids have the same attitude."

She explained that Moriarty chose the
Amiga platform "because of its graphics ca-
pability, mainly, and because it's inexpen-
sive." The latter reason means that "every
child can have a computer," not just "those
who finish their work before the others,"

Show of Support

Better support is the aim of software
upgrades this month.

ASDG's CygnusEd Professional 3,5
(SI 19.95) text editor is locale. library
compatible; in addition to English, a lo-
calized text set for German is now avail-
able. Version 3.5's search-and-replace
feature "remembers" search strings so
you can browse through previous strings
instead of retyping. The new release now
has enhanced ARexx commands; il also
supports Amiga Clipboard and Work-
bench 2.0 and later. An emulator library
is included to give Workbench 1.8 users
the standard file, font, and screen-mode
requesters. The upgrade from CED 2. 12
costs S35. (RS# 129.)

People have used Virtual Reality Stu-
dio (Domark) for skills training, crime-
scene re-enactment, and home design;
with it you can create a complex 3-D
world, and apply to it sets of conditions
that are responsive to the user's actions.
Now the 2.0 version (S99.95) offers new

which is often the case when only one com-
puter is used in a classroom.

The kids use word processors to write
stories and take spelling tests. The younger
children also use a program called Talking
Animator (JMH Software), which combines
an animation/drawing program with a word
processor. Chancellor says that the children
love to draw, and that by doing so they learn
to move the mouse and how to use click and
double-click to make things happen. For a
young child, that takes concentration.

Favorable Feedback

By the time the students reach the third
grade the Amiga has become a fun tool to
learn from. Chancellor noted that she can
measure success if a student can operate the
computer and the keyboard with minimal
support: She simply tells them to get out

whatever program they will be using and
boot up their computers — and they do the
rest.

The real success, however, comes when
kids find something in the computer lab that
they can't find anywhere else. Chancellor
noted that one sixth-grade boy, who was not
very popular and did not think of himself as
very smart, could excel at the computer. Be-
fore long he was discovering new things
about the programs and teaching the
teachers!

The program has been so successful that
a similar tab set up has been created for the
Middle School with hard-drive equipped
Amiga 600s. What's next on the lesson plan?
AmigaVision. Chancellor would like the old-
er students to learn about logic flow in the
process of being creative.

— Will Steinsiek

features including more control com-
mands, lading and transparent objects,
flexicubes, and point-and-click creation
of spheres. A video tutorial is included.
as is a clip-art library with a companion
full-color catalog to make object selec-
tion easier. (RS# 130.)

GVP's G-Lock software version 1.16
supports the Amiga's parallel port for bet-
ter compatibility with Commodore's
CDTV and Cold Disk's Video Director.
'Hie software also features improved op-
eration and synchronization with all VCRs
and automatic startup capability for use
with kiosks. The update is available di-
rectly from CVP dealers and from the
GVP BBS at 215/337-8770. (RS# 131.)

Digital Collage (DRC Seqite?itial
Graphics), a monthly collection often tex-
tures and five backdrops, is now available
in IFF-2'1 format as well as regular IFF.
Digital ColIage24 contains the same tiles
and backdrops as the IFF version, but
they are J PEG compressed and in greater

color resolution. A six-month subscrip-
tion costs $30 for IFF format and $72 for
IFF-24; subscribers also get 15 DPaint
motion clips each month. (RS# 133.)

OVERHEARD

So, you've finished your masterpiece? En-
ter it in the Pixel Art Expo Roma '93 con-
test. Any original graphic and musical
work in real time that was created on a
personal computer will be considered.

Amiga-generated entries must have been
created with a standard graphics card and
a maximum of 18MB. All entries must be
postmarked by Oct. 31. For more infor-
mation wTite to: Assnciazione Culturale
Tccnopolis, Viale Gorizia n.20, 00198
Rome, Italv.

To locate the vendors of products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 94

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A1200 Additions

If you want to add to your A1 200, there are
many new options to consider.

The Blizzard 1200/4 Memory Board
[S299, Advanced Systems & Software)

comes with 4MB of fast RAM and a battery-
backed real-time clock. You can install a
68881 or 68882 math coprocessor in the
board's socket. Also, you can add an addi-
tional 4MB with the Blizzard 1200/ADD4
Memory Module ($199). (RS# 128.)

Expansion Systems is offering several
expanders, both internal and external. On the
inside, you can add memory, an optional FPU
(floating-point unit), and a clock to your
A1200 with the BaseBoard 1208 (from
$189). The additon of an FPU can enhance
ray-tracing and image-processing speeds.

The board has a connector for the
DataFlyer 1200s, a SCSI controller card
that comes with installation software. You
can use 3.5-inch SCSI drives and removable-
media drives with the addition of this card
and an external drive chassis.

If you simply want to keep time, Base-
Board 1200c ($18.95) is a battery-backed
reat-time clock. The card plugs onto the
clock header without requiring removal of
theA1200's RF shield.

The external DataFlyer XDS comes in
two versions to let you add hard drives
and other devices to your A1 200 or A600.
Both attach to the Amiga's internal IDE
controller via a power data cable, which
also plugs into the internal floppy port,
providing enough juice for most hard dri-
ves. (You may opt to use an external pow-
er supply.)

DataFlyer XDS-IDE (S99) provides for
two IDE 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drives: one ex-
ternal and one internal or two external.
DataFlyer XDS-SCSI (from S149) puts a
SCSI controller in the chassis and can run
with an internal or external IDE drive. All of
the drives come with an Auto-Install pro-
gram to format a drive with one mouse
click. (RS# 143.)

SCSI Support

With the SCSI-TV (S 150, AmiTrix), you
can connect Commodore's CDTV to any
SCSI device: You can mount a Quantum
GQ hard drive to it and, with an external
connector, up to six other SCSI devices.
SCSI-TV connects to the CDTV's rear ex-
pansion port. Commodore's HDToolBnx
and Workbench 1.3 are included: for an
additional SI 0, you get an adapter kit for
a 2.5-inch drive". (RS# 127.)

ASDG introduces support lor Hewlett
Packard's SCSI-connecting ScanJet lie —
a S 1 599 color llatbcd scanner. The Scan-
Jet He driver (S200) comes in two ver-
sions: one that integrates directly with Art
Department Professional and Morph-
Plus, and one that functions as a stand-
alone program. A Commodore-compat-
ible SCSI controller with an external
connector is required. (RS# 129.)

Desktop Doodles

Are you in a creative slump? Check out
The Sterling Connection's three new col-
lections of public-domain fonts and clip-art
for use with PageStream (each $39.95). Font
Farm is a collection of more than 50 deco-
rative fonts on four disks, while EPSalot

comprises nine disks and more than 270
pieces of clip-art in Illustrator Encapsulated
PostScript (EPS) format. Cliptomania fea-
tures more than 470 hi-res clip-art images.
Each collection comes with a handy direc-
tory. (RS# 139.]

Old World Video

Simkat Ethnic Fonts (SI 00 each pack-
age, L.C.P.S.) can take your video titles
to the "cradle of civilization." You

choose the language (Assyrian, Arabic,
Hebrew, Persian, Afghani, or Ottoman)
and the application, and you'll receive a
hard-drive installable disk of foreign
fonts with matching key stickers. Pack-
ages are available for use with Deluxe-
Paint (Electronic Arts), Video Toaster
(NewTek), the Rashunnm woid proces-
sor (I larmonvSofl). and general video
applications. (RS# 140.)

Foreign Tongues

Make the Korean language your ma-
chine's language with Hangul-Alpha
2.0 ($129.95, Mesa Graphics). The

package consists of three separate pro-
grams. The core program, an Eng-

You'll be reading right-to-left with
Simkat Ethnic Fonts.

A Korean alphabet created with Hangul-
Alpha 2.0.

lish/Korean word processor, allows
editing via hangul or QWERTY key-
board input and supports graphics.
The Han-Bit Titler utility converts text
from the word processor into a large,
boldface hi-res hangul font (in your
choice of resolutions) for title screens.
Finally, Soo-Un Print is a utility that
outputs a high-res font for publication-
quality headlines and both- copy onto
Preferences-supported printers.
(RS# 138.)

Beautiful Music

Whether you're a composer, lyricist, or
both, you've got some new software op-
tions.

Digital Expressions Research's
MusicLab-IFS (S89) is an alternative to
composing random or pop-music back-
grounds. You can compose more com-
plex, structured music such as large-form
or classical, and arrange scores in musical
sequences with up to eight multivoiced
parts. Preview your sequences over MIDI
or the Amiga's internal audio, and then
save them as MiDI or as IFF-SMUS files.
MusicLab-IFS requires 1MB RAM and
Workbench 1.3 or 2.0. (RS# 122.)

Notator-X (S79.95, Hollyware
Entertainment) lets you create music
scores from scratch or import Music-X or
MIDI files. Each page can have up to 32
tracks on 18 staves. You can create up to
five lines of verse with a maximum of
three different endings per score.
Notator-X automatically aligns lyrics un-
der notes of staff, even words that are
split over several notes. MIDI data is ex-
changed within the program, so you don't
need to use a tricky file-conversion utili-
ty. You do, however, need a minimum of
2MB of memory. (RS# 123.)

8 September 1993

OVERSCAN

Background Check

Add some prominence to your video-
titling projects with Plaque-
Grounds(S99.95, Kara Computer
Graphics). The six-disk set contains 24-
bit textured backdrops to use with 24-bit
and AGA paint programs. The collec-
tion features eight textures (Adobe,
Granite, Sandstone, Marble-Lt. Gray,
Copper-Patina, Wood, Marble-I'ink
Vein, and Brass-Brushed) and four styles
(Rectangle-Round, Rectangle-Frame,
Rectangle-Square, and Rectangle-Edge)
in various sizes. PI auneG rounds includes
a utility to decompress the JPEG files to
IFF-24 format. (RS# 141.)

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From top-left clockwise are Adobe,
Granite, Copper-Patina, and Wood tex-
tures from PlaqueGrounds.

A Step Up

The MCB-1 (S595, Advanced Control

Systems) is an integrated stepping-motor
controller and driver board. The MCB-1 dri-
ves a single four-phase stepping motor at
six amps per phase, and offers velocity up
to 10,000 steps per second. The board ex-
ecutes under various modes. A resident
BASIC interpreter allows the MCB-1 to run

as an independent intelligent controller.
You can download BASIC programs and
store them in the MCB-1's nonvolatile RAM;
a program can execute on power-up or un-
der host command via a serial port. The
MCB-1 requires a five-, six-, or eight-lead
stepping motor, and a phase current of up
to six amps per phase. (RS# 121.)

Top Form

Want to create and print your own busi-
ness documents? Not only will MicroFirm
(S59.95, Gemstone Group) generate the
document you desire — from a contract to a
bill of sale— but it will ask you for pertinent
information, insert your answers into the
document, and format it. (RS# 124.)

Multimedia Pilot

AirMouse Remote Controls, which
brought cordless, two-button control to
multimedia presentations via the Air-
Mouse, now oilers even more options
for presenters with the CoPilot ($795).

CoPilot puts your computer in com-
mand of up to six media devices. Act-
ing as an infrared link, it can change
channels or start and stop players with-
out interrupting your presentation to
Hip a switch. By the way, don't worry
about tricky computer commands;
CoPilot is configured to use simple
English. CoPilot works not only with
Amigas, but also on any computer with
a serial port. (RS# 120.) ■

ON-LINE

SCAN

By Tim Walsh

Recently, a rep from General
Videotex Corporation (parent
company of BIX) phoned our
offices. With the faint sound of
marching bands in the back-
ground, the rep explained that
Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey
had just finished a plant lour of
the home office in Cambridge,
MA, and was duly impressed
with both Genera! Videotex and
the Internet.

This exemplifies the fact that
Washington leaders are begin-
ning to pay homage to the
mighty modem, as they follow
Vice President Gore's lead into
the previously overlooked
telecommunications industry.

The government's multibil-
lion dollar subsidizing of a fiber-
optic super highway of commu-
nications could spell a new era
in faster, cheaper, and all-
around better networks. It's not
just a matter of throwing mon-
ey at existing phone lines; seg-
ments of the new administration
want to organize all of the tele-

phone and cable TV companies
racing lo capture a slice of the
telecommunications pie. Expect
more public discussions of the
nets and telecommunications in
the failure.

Newfound Friend

Delphi, another General
Videotex telecommunication
network, has never enjoyed the
widespread publicity of the oth-
er networks. But while its Ami-
ga support is not as great as that
of other networks, Delphi is
packed with financial news op-
tions and, with full access to the
Internet (for a S3 monthly sur-
charge and data transfer alloca-
tion of 10MB), it's a well-
equipped and respectable net.
In recognition of that fact and
my newly acquired account, this
column will begin monthly cov-
erage of files and happenings
on Delphi.

Willi more screen flashes
than any other commercial net,
Delphi might initially seem a

litde ungainly for even experi-
enced telecommics. It does,
however, have a low learning
curve thanks to what I'd de-
scribe as foolproof screen
prompts. For instance, until
you decide to abandon menus,
prompts in the Amiga area
read AMIGA>Whal do you
want to dor"

From the Delphi Main Menu,
16 selections greet you. An Ami-
ga SIG (Special Interest Group)
with 15 categories constitutes
the net's current support in that
area. The Amiga listings area,
called Databases, is then further
broken down into about 14 file
areas thai cover audio, graph-
ics, animation, and the ubiqui-
tous Fred Fish collection. Up-
loading is free, of course, while
download protocol options in-
clude Zmodem and Ymodem
Batch, making the process fast
and easy.

Database Managers, as the
system operators are called in
Delphi's Amiga area, seem less

pressured than their counter-
parts on other commercial nets.
This results in fewer files with
diminished timeliness. While
Delphi comes up short by com-
parison to other neis in its num-
ber and array of Am iga-specific
files, it does offer a unique
"Member Directory" option in
the Amiga area to locate other
users.

Price-wise, Delphi offers
what it calls a 20/20 Advantage
Plan. This allows the first 20
hours of use for only 520. with
each additional hour costing
SI. 80. A second option, called
the 10/4 Plan, costs S10 per
month, which covers the first
four hours of use; additional
use is S4 per hour. Rates apply
for access speeds up to 2400
baud. As of this writing, Delphi
is still testing 9600-baud access.

Finally, Delphi makes it easy
to check out the service. Use
your modem and communica-
tion software to dial 800/365-
4636 (Internet users can
connect via Telnet to "del-
phi. com"). When the User-
name prompt appears, tvpe
JOIN DELPHI and, at the pass-
word prompt, type INTER-
NET. If you prefer, you can call
Delphi's voice number at
800/695-4005. D

Amiga World 9

Never before has a system given you all of the necessary tools
to create video productions with your own individual style.

Now you can create broadcast quality
videos with unmatched ease, power, and
versatility: OpalVision gives you lots of
inputs in multiple video formats, both PAL
and NTSC. Revolutionary DVEs never
before available on a personal computer.
Chroma and Luma Keying. Real-time
framegrabbing. Full Audio Mixing and
Equalization. An advanced character
generator. Compatibility with all of the
important Amiga video, graphics and
animation software.

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The core unil of the modular OpalVision system.
A true, RGB, 24- Bit frame buffer, it operates in any
Amiga computer with a video slot. It allows
smooth fading of pictures, color-cycling effects,
and smooth, double-buffered 24-Bit animation.
Includes connectors for the Video Processor and
Scan-Rate Converter/TBC. Includes OpalPaint,
Opal Presents and OpalAnimMATE software.

Includes critically-acclaimed OpalPaint Image
processing and painting software. Use the power
of OpalPaint to easily create your own images or
enhance and modify existing framestores.

OpalPaint includes an expandable library ol
image processing modes, texture mopping, color
and transparency gradients, multiple work
modes, nozzle brushes and many other tools.

OpalPaint 'sfull range of tools and comprehensive
controls provides a level of support for artistic
creativity never before available on the Amiga.
It's fast. Real-time. Full 24-Bit.

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60 frames per second. ltworksin8, 12, 15, I8and
24-Bit modes and features selectable screen
sizes from 32 x 20 to 768 x 286 pixels.

OpalVision Video Processor
Plug this card into the Main Board and add a
wealth of additional features: a 24-Bit
framegrabber which doesn't require a time base
corrector, a professional-quality genlocker with
definable chroma and luma keying, a 256-level
linear transparency key, a video sandwich key
for inserting video into 3D screens , real-time color
processing of live video and an unlimited number
of transitions and customizable Digital Video
Effects using the included OpalVision Roaster
Chip and software.

The OpalVision switcher allows easy "drag-and-
drop" groupings of icon-based DVE's including
ANIM based effects, chroma and luma effects
and exclusive OpalVision "Roaster Chip" effects.

The Video Processor offers real-time color
processing of both live video and framestores.
Create glows, shines, luminance effects,
posterizations, nuclear effects and more.

The 256-level linear keyer (Alpha channel and
transparency effects) allows the definition of
transparency belween two video sources on a
pixel-by-pixel basis for excellent vignetting and
super-smoolh shadow effects. The keyer can be
taken from the Video Processor or an external
video source, and/or output to another
production switcher. The Alpha channel also
gives you the ability to create highly realistic soft-
edged transitions and organic effects. Superb
32-bit graphics with precise and detailed Alpha
channel delinitionscan becreatedin OpalPaint.

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In addition to the wealth of software included
with the OpalVision system, you can access a
wide array ot OpalVision-compatible Amiga
software directly from the switcher screen!

The Opal C haracier Generator offers full 35ns text
capability on the A3000 or 4000. Supports Amiga ,
Compugraphic and Color fonts. CG pages may
be incorporated directly into the switcher.

OpalVision Roaster Chip
Theexclusive technology of theOpalVision Roaster
Chipprovides an endless number of user-definable
Digital Video Effects. Take any two video sources
(or an Amiga or OpalVision generated graphic).
Flip it . Scale it. Rotate it on the X. Y or Z axis. Move
it along a path. Zoom in. Move out. You have
complete control. Build your own custom library of
useful wipes and effects and give your videos a
unique style. OpalVision is the only video system in
its price class which gives you this kind of power.
You've got to see it to believe it!

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DVE's fas! and easy. Define Ihe position, size and
X or Y rotation and the Roaster Chip will transform
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font size, color, outline, drop shadow and anti-
aliasing. The CG also creates draggable boxes ol
text, graphic separators, orlFF brushesand pictures.

The Video Processor's broadcast-quality
genlocker allows both Amiga and OpalVision-
generated graphics and animations to be
combined with any video source.

Any video inputcan be displayed in a draggable,
scrollable and resizable window on the Amiga
Workbench. Also allows zooming in and out and
has AREXX for remote control from other software.

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A 19-inch, rack-mountable, video/audio mixing,
switching and transcoding device which connects
directly to the Video Processor. Nine video and
ten audio inputs are available simultaneously in
RGB, Y/R-Y/B-Y, Composite andS-Video. Choose
two sources from these inputs, assign a transition
or special effect provided by the Video Processor,
andtriggerit manually orautomatically. The linear
transparency key provides transparency control
between video sources on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
The fen audio inputs (five stereo pairs) are fully
software-sequenced with smooth fades and full,
5-band frequency equalization.

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detail from the switcher control panel) features
full audlo-follows-video capability, plus an on-
screen panel with sliders for each of the five
stereo audio Inputs available on the Video Suite.
Sliders control volume and/or 5-band EQ.

OpalVision Scan-Rate Converter/TBC
Add this card and achieve 3 1 Khz, non-interlaced
output of Amiga and OpalVision graphics and
anyincomingvideosourceineitherPALor NTSC.
Includes full time- base correction of incoming
video. The on-board memory also serves as an
additional frame-store.

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Ine. Technical specifications subject to change without notice.

Photo-realistic

3-D creation,

true ray-trace,

rendering and

animation

program.

Real 3D 2.0

Realsoft/Godfrey & Associates, S699
All accelerated ('020, '030, '040) Amigas.
Copy protected — hardware dongle.
2.0/AGA compatible.

Minimum system: 3MB RAM, math
coprocessor, hard disk with 5MB free.

Recommended system: 5MB RAM, 300 +
MB hard drive, 24-bit framebuffer.

Some lime ago I reviewed what was then a
"new vintage" 3-D rendering program called
Real 3D, It had a unique approach and good
quality, but limited animation capabilities.
Now, Realsoft has released Real 3D 2.0, which is,
without question, the next generation in 3-D cre-
ation and animation software. Many of its capa-
bilities have never been available on the desktop
computer platform, Amiga or otherwise, so 3-D
animation enthusiasts should find this program
most welcome.

The Model Program

A review of this nature usually covers only the new
features of a previously reviewed program, but
Real 3D 2 is most effectively described as a new
program. Be forewarned that it is not designed
with the hobbyist in mind, for both the price and
the learning curve are steep. Realsoft has clone an
admirable job with the unique interface, but it is
laden with so many features that many selections
and decisions are required to effect the final pic-
ture or animation.

One program module in Real 3D controls all
object modeling, surface-characteristic applica-
tion, animation, and rendering. The inultiwindow
interface is completely customizable, allowing you
to open as many view windows as you like. You
control the angle of view, the render method, par-
allel or perspective viewing, visible objects, and so
forth. Those accustomed to the standard
fronl/side/top view approach can set that environ-
ment and save it to disk.

Most of the time, you perform object creation in
real time in wire-frame mode. For very complex
objects, you can also have object alteration dis-

To locate the vendors of the products reviewed, see the
"Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 94.

played by bounding boxes. Users having fast ma-
chines will find it easy to work in gray-scale solid
model, with the rendering engine optimized for
certain modes. You also control the refresh of anv
or all of the windows, a design that keeps everything
moving as fast as possible.

The power is in the selection windows. You cre-
ate and organize objects In a hierarchical tree struc-
ture very similar to the lile-and-dircctory structure
of a disk-operating system. For example, a house
contains rooms, which in turn contain furniture
consisting of legs, seats, backs, and so on:

HOUSE
LIVING

COUCH
LEG1
LEG2
LEG3
LEG4
CHAIR
BATHROOM

In the same manner, you can also organize ma-
terials applied as surface textures to objects, apply-
ing, for example, a single wood texture to each leg
of the chair. Anv alteration of the texture then
changes each leg. The program also supports al-
gorithmic textures and 2-1-bit image mapping with
IFF, Targa, and BMP file formats. You can animate
textures and applv them in an unlimited number of
layers, and textures can be tiled and (lipped in both
the x and y directions to more easily create seam-
less materials.

Real 3D 2 supports bump, environmental, opac-
ity, shadow, reflection, clip, and transparency
mapping, and you can also form non-homoge-
neous materials with controls for turbidity and tur-
bidity saturation, thus easily creating gaseous ob-
jects. Another major feature is that textures can be
B-Spline mapped to B-Spline mesh objects, which

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conforms the image to the exact defor-
mations. (Generally, most 3-D mapping
stretches and distorts the image as it hits
extreme high or low points.'

Objectives Defined

Object modeling, though different from
that in most other 3-D programs, is ex-
tremely powerful. The program rounds
out almost every modeling requirement
by providing a large collection of prim-
itives, quadric, polygonal, and B-Spline
mesh surfaces, and tools for a variety of
free-form construction. You handle
nonlinear deformation of most objects
with deformation or user-defined con-
trols. Also provided are skeletal control,
snap-to points, definable grids and a
measuring system for precise entry in
meters, centimeters, millimeters, inch-
es, or feet. For good measure, land-
scape- and tree-fractal generators are
included. 1 found the variety of model-
ing tools excellent for both structured
and free-form object control.

The exceptional rendering abilities
in Real 3D 2 are optimized for opera-
tion on 68040 machines. This program
contains a true ray-trace rendering en-
gine, and therefore can be slow at ren-
dering complex scenes, but it is one of the few
programs that allows you to create a working mag-
nifving-glass lens.

Other rendering features include soft shadows,
glowing atmospheric effects, depth of Field, mo-
tion blur (object or entire scene), fogs, unlimited
light sources, antialiasing, and even Alpha-chan-
nel support. Commands for assisting single-frame
controllers, frame and field rendering, and direct
support to file and frame buffers further enhance
your rendering controls. Realsoft is continually
adding framebuffer board support. My disks in-
cluded DCTV, Harlequin, VD2000, and Retina
links. Support for Targa, GpalViston, IV24, and
others is due shortly. Moreover, Amiga 4000 users
have full access to the AGA resolutions and color
systems.

Light Moves

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now gives your Amiga animation abilities previous- example of a
ly available only on workstations or proprietary sys- Real 3D ray
terns. A few of ihe powerful features include key- trace.
frame control over lights, textures, cameras, and
materials; acceleration/deceleration over time; de-
formation; Boolean operations and hierarchical an-
imation controls. More unique abilities include
skeletal control, particle animation, collision de-
tection, and inverse kinematics.

You can use any object as a component of the par-
ticle system. These particles can collide and react to
other objects within the animation, and you can in-
clude gravity into the animation calculation. Exam-
ples might clarify these abilities: An object follows a
path, but gravitation changes the path as the move-
ment progresses; the picture of a flag is mapped
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in the wind; the paths of marbles rolling
down a staircase are based on collision
detection and gravity.

Inverse kinematics permit you to se-
lect the end points of skeletons, and the
program calculates the joint flexing
that would naturally happen. For ex-
ample, if a robot's arm pushes a but-
ton, you'd move the finger tip to the
button. The program then automati-
cally connects the movement of the fin-
ger to the hand, to the elbow, to the
shoulder, to the body. This contributes
to much more natural movement in the
animation.

In other words, Real 3D 2.0 tries to
follow Newton's laws of motion, true re-
fraction indices, and other natural prop-
erties to simulate reality. It also lets you
add multiple cameras and render a spe-
cific view of your scene without recreat-
ing object or scene movements. Think of
this as though you were taping a TV
show with multiple cameras and then, as
director, selecting the view actually used.

Speaks The Language

I haven't the space to explain all the fea-
tures of this comprehensive program,
but would like to emphasize what I found
most notable. The emphasis is on speed,
asynchronous feedback for fast screen
updates, an optimized rendering engine,
and hierarchal objects and textures for
efficient memory management. The
documentation is excellent, including
more than 200 pages of tutorial, 200 of
reference, and a marginal index. The tu-
torials cover almost even' aspect of this
complex program and are actually accu-
rate. There are also hot-key equivalents
for almost all menu functions, and there
is ARexx support.

It is even more important that Real-
soft has included RPL (Real 3D Pro-
gramming Language), a forth-like lan-
guage designed to control almost all
functions. With RPL, you can create
macros, textural object mapping, ob-
ject creation, and custom animation
and deformations, This opens up the
way for in-house and third-party pro-
grammers to develop advancements in
animation procedures, textures, and
object creation.

The only concern you need have
about Real 3D 2 is its serious learning
curve, but this is not so much a problem
with the program as it is a function of its
power. I've put this program on my
must-have list of 3-D animation systems
for the serious animator.

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Clarity 16

Mlcrodeal, S249
All Amigas.
External parallel- and serial-port

connection.
Hard-drive installable software.
Not copy protected.
2.0/3.0/AGA compatible.
Installation: Easy.

16-bit stereo sampling and
play-back cartridge.

Want to improve your Amiga's 8-bit
sound capabilities by a factor of 16?
If so, 16-bit sound sampling and play-
back is the way to go. Eight-bit sound
samples are recorded with a 128-level
resolution, as compared to 32,768 levels
for 16-bit samples. Furthermore, digital
recording based on 8-bit samples has a
total dynamic range of only 42 decibels,
while the range of 16-bit recordings is 90
decibels. No question, 16 bits are better.

Sweet Sixteen

To get those great sounds, consider Mi-
crodeal's Clarity 16, a 1 6-bit sound sam-
pler. Housed in a 4-1/2 x 5-inch beige
plastic cartridge and connected via a pair
of 18-inch ribbon cables to the parallel
and serial ports, it's a breeze to install.
Unfortunately, the data-transfer rate
sensitivity through the parallel port lim-
its the cable length and precludes the
use of extension cables. Clarity 1 6's back

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panel features pairs of RCA phono jacks
for line-level stereo input and output, as
well as a set of MIDI-in and -out jacks.
Perhaps as a cost-saving move, the car-
tridge lacks microphone inputs and in-
put-level controls.

Two channel A/D and D/A converters
in (he cartridge manage the recording
and playback of audio signals. Clarity 16
relies on the Amiga's 8-bit playback to
monitor the incoming signal during the
recording process. Clarity's audio-edit-

ing software can also use the Amiga's au-
dio channels for playback of 16-bit sam-
ples with 8-bii quality. In turn, you can
edii previously recorded 16-bil samples
al 8-bit levels.

Because Clarity 1 6 doesn't record sam-
ples to a hard drive, the length of record-
ed samples is limited by RAM. The soft-
ware can manage up to nine samples in
RAM at once. Keep in mind that a single
16-bit stereo sample requires four bytes,
so at a sampling rate of 20KHz, about 13
seconds of audio would fill up 1MB of
RAM. During recording and playback,
Clarity 16 takes complete control of the
Amiga. Only the left mouse button, which
you use to interrupt recording and play-
back, remains active.

Stability Notes

With a recent software upgrade for own-
ers of AGA Amigas, Clarity 16 provides

support for the standard Amiga sound-
file formats and the one-, three- and five-
octave 8-bit standard 8SVX/IFF. It also
handles the AIFF file format for 16-bit
samples and Microdeal's proprietary Au-
dio Visual Research (AVR) file format.
AVR files store complete 16-bit stereo
data, including the locations of as many
as six blocks in the sample and the sam-
ple's windowing data.

A series ofwindows on the Workbench
screen controls the Clarity software. The
omnipresent control panel is a small
window with eight icons that open most
of Clarity's working windows. These in-
clude sample monitoring, sample
recording and playback. MIDI-play, se-
quencer, and real-time effects. Pull-down
menus are available whenever any Clar-
ity window is active.

Three sets of simulated "instruments"
are provided to monitor and set input
levels prior to recording, including VTJ
meters, accurate oscilloscopes, and spec-
trum analyzers. An expansive selection
of sample-editing functions include cut,
paste, insert, delete, overlay, mix, and
freehand edit. Sample-processing func-
tions include reverse, channel-copy and
-Swap for stereo samples, loop lade, nor-
malize, fade in, fade out, volume, and
pan, as well as low-pass, high-pass, band-
pass, and band-stop filtering,

Clarity 1 6 even displays a three-dimen-
sional plot representing a fast Fourier-
transform analysis of the sample that
shows its frequency content for a range
of time segments. Special-effects func-
tions include echo, reverb, flange,
chorus, and distortion. The parameters
for the sample-processing and special-
effects functions are fully adjustable.

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You can apply processing to the entire
sample or just to selected blocks.

Special Effects

The real-time effects, similar to the spe-
cial-effects functions listed above,
process the incoming 16-bit signal and
immediately play it back on the Amiga's
8-bit channels. All the real-lime effects
have adjustable parameters. A sample
sequencer with a capacity of up to 300
events provides fine control of the auto-
mated sample playback. You can create,
edit, save, and load the sequencer (lies.
Clarity's MIDI mode lets you play
samples via the Amiga's keyboard or
with a MIDI instrument. The Amiga's
keyboard supports up to ten samples,
adjustable over a nine-note range. The
MIDI instrument supports a seven-oc-
tave range, and you can assign different
samples to different ranges. You store
the sample assignments in MIDI Key-
board Map files that you can create, edit,
save, and load. Clarity 16 can also down-
load and upload samples to and from a
sampling instrument

Incommodious Actions

According to the ReadMe file on its re-
cently revised accompanying disk, Clar-
ity 16 should work on all Amigas, in-
cluding the A3000 and A4000. The
A500 and A2000 operating in 68000
mode are capable of sampling rates as
high as 44 KHz in mono and 32 KHz in
stereo. With an A1200, I was able to
achieve sampling rates of up to 44 KHz
in stereo, but audible rates were limited
to 25 KHz. My 25 MHz 68030-equipped
A2000 was limited to 36 KHz in stereo
and 37 KHz in mono.

Problems were evident with the pack-
aged instruments on both the Al 200 and
A2000. On the A1200, only the VU me-
ters and the mono spectrum analyzer
worked properly; the oscilloscope would
not work at all. On the A2000, the only
instrument that worked was the mono
oscilloscope. I had to manually enter
four settings to get Clarity 16 to work
with an accelerated A 1200. Most users
will find experimental determination of
software settings unacceptable. Clarity
16 should be able to determine which
computer it is running on and adjust it-
self accordingly. At the veiy least, you
should be able to choose from a list of
possible hardware configurations.

Overall, Clarity 16 is acceptable as a
moderately priced, 16-bit sound-sam-
pling and playback system. It does not
offer the features of higher-priced, mul-
tichannel systems, but, even with its
glitches, it provides good value.

— Morton Kevelson

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4000 makes use of the 68040. Faster
clock speeds, math coprocessors, 32-bh
data bus — these all serve to speed things
up. The disadvantage, of course, is that
the price of a fully configured accelera-
tor board can easily exceed the original
cost of the host computer.

Time Is Money

The Amiga 2000 version of SupraTurbo
28 is a small (7x2-inch) board that you
install by opening up the computer and
plugging it into the 86-pin coprocessor

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slot. The main connector on SupraTur-
bo 28 is mounted perpendicular to the
circuit, which ends tip lying flat when it
is installed. SupraTurbo 28's on/off
switch is mounted on a metal plate that
occupies the coprocessor port on the
Amiga 2000's back panel.

Because the same circuit board —
equipped with a pass-through connec-
tor — is used for the Amiga 500 version
of SupraTurbo 28, no computer disas-
sembly is required. Housed in a slim
plastic case that nicely complements the

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into the Amiga 500's expansion port.

Until SupraTurbo 28s minimize ex-
penses by incorporating a high-speed,
low-power 68HC0OO microprocessor op-
erating at 28 MHz, roughly four times
the speed of the 68000 in the stock Ami-
ga 500/2000. A speedier microprocessor
does little for the rest of system, which
still plods along at the original 7 MHz
clock rate. To circumvent this bottle-
neck, the SupraTurbo is equipped with
a high-speed 16K static RAM cache.
Whenever possible, program instruc-
tions and data reside in this high-speed
RAM for execution,

11 te RAM cache may have to be tuned
for some systems. For example, a system
with less than 4MB of fast RAM and
equipped with a Bridgeboard using
shared or dual-port RAM may not be
able to use the RAM cache. Because the
081 ICOO0 is the functional equivalent of
the original 68000, software compatibil-
ity is assured, at least on paper. Never-
theless, SupraTurbo 28 is equipped with
a disabling switch.

Turbo Lag

Alter installing SupraTurbo 28 in my
Amiga 2000, I found I had to start the
system with SupraTurbo turned off. This
mav have been the result of a minor con-
flict with one of the expansion cards in
my system, which includes two megabytes
of chip RAM, an IVS Grand Slam (with
2MB last RAM) driving a Quantum
LP105S and a SyQuest 88MB drive, and
a Xetec Mini FastCard driving a Quan-
tum LF52S and Chinon CD-ROM drive.

Keeping SupraTurbo 28 turned off is
not a problem, as you can set the Supra-
Turbo 28 software — which takes onlv a
few minutes to install — to automatically
turn on SupraTurbo 28 as part of the
startup-sequence. Once the system is up
and running, you can turn SupraTurbo
28 on and off with either the hardware
switch on the back panel or the
SupraTurbo control program. You can
switch (be unit on or off at any lime with-
out rebooting the system or interrupt-
ing the execution of any programs that
may be running on your Amiga.

I evaluated SupraTurbo 28 using Nic
Wilson's Sys! nib version .'1.1-1 and LaM-
ontc Koop's A1BB 0.022. The former
showed that my Amiga 2000 ran about
8.5 limes faster than normal with
SupraTurbo turned on. Syslnfo also
showed a small but noticeable improve-
ment in the performance of the hard dri-
ves. For example, read speeds for the
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• XIPaint real-time 24BU paint program comes
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• The Retina™ can still be used to display 24BH
graphics while displaying Workbench.

• Retina animation software included to make
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Just some of the many packages supporting the
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• Requires VGA and up monitors.

• Ram Configurations 2 MB or 4 MB.

• Compatible with the A2000, A3000 , and A4000
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• Compatible with the Video Toaster and
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Requires the 2.0 or greater operating system.

TVPaint 2.0 Professional

The State of the Art in 24Bil Painting for the Amiga.
TVPaint is the fastest 24Dit Paint Package available
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Some ofTVPainfs features: Automatic Antialiasing
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control oti tools. Full Undo/Redo. Spare/Swap
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The VLab includes an extensive software control
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new concept. MacroSvstem has pro\ided a new
Interleaved Frame Recording feature (VLab and
V[.ab Y/C], Interleaved Frame Recording or IFR
basically allows the VLab to digitize full 30fps
digital video sequences to HardDisk by making
multiple passes of the recorded video. The VLab
will digitize the number of frames specified to either
HardDisk or Ram as sequentially numbered frames.

Hardware Features

• Frame grab in l/30th sec. or Field grab in
1 /60th sec.

• Digitizes full frame full color - NTSC or PAL signals.
Software selectable inputs include:

• VLab - 2 Composite inputs.

• VLab Y/C - I Y/C & 2 Composite inputs.

• VLab 1200 - 2 Composite inputs.

■ Time Base Corrector not required.

• Compatible with Ihe Video Toaster and
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Software Support

• VLab control windows allow you to keep mul tiple
critical controls open at the same time. And the
monitor window display lets you see exactly
what you are digitizing.

• Real time Color. Contrast. Luminance and
Gamma, Luminance. Chromanace controls.

• AGA chip set support.

• Includes ADPro Loader module.

• Extensive ARexx control system.

■ Save Images in 24B11. YUV, or AGA.

■ The VLab™ is supported by many popular
Graphics programs.

• Supported by the Nucleas Personal SFC.

• The VLab™ requires Kickstart 2.0.

MultiFrame -
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Choosing the Right Path

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C H E A L

S A V I E

WHEN COMMODORE UNVEILED the A40G0 almost a year ago, excitement
ran high as the new Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) brought the
possibility of 24-bit graphics to our desktops without having to buy propri-
etary formatted display boards. A few months later, high-end potentiality be-
came low-cost reality for many users when the company introduced the Amiga ! 200: a 32-
bit, 68020-driven, AGA machine with the price tag of an A500! With the new machine even
sporting an IDE interface, users could immediately attach an inexpensive hard drive and
be off and running.

Now, of course, we're ready for the rest of the race.

Many new users, as well as seasoned veterans, purchased the A1200 with visions of fu-
ture expansibility, since it has a 150-pin expansion slot underneath and a PCMCIA slot
on the left side. It all looks so easy, you say, what more could you need to sprint ahead on
the upgrade path? Funny you should ask that, though, because many users of the A1200
are baffled by all the choices they have to make in expanding their systems. Decisions have
to be made about upgrade priorities, allocation of resources, and future expansion possi-
bilities. I've attempted to narrow down those choices into five questions an A 1200 owner
should ask before buying an expansion device.

How Much RAM Do I Need?

To answer that question, you must also consider the type of RAM you need. Relatively in-
expensive solutions are PCMCIA RAM cards that do not tie up your 150-pin expansion
slot. (See the sidebar "Acronyms Explained" for details on PCMCIA.) These come in two-"

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E X P A N D 1 N G I HE A I 2

or four-megabyte
configurations and
plug into the side
of the A] 200. This
memory, however,
is 16-bit and will
slow down your ap-
plications because
the 32-bit proces-
sor will have to wait
for the data if this
is the only fast
RAM you have.
New Media Corp.
offers the PSram
(from SI 68) PCM-
CIA RAM card.
(Note: Don't place
undue emphasis
on comparing the
prices of expansion
devices given in this
article — especially
those involving RAM or multifunctional boards. Most
are available in a very wide variety of configurations —

So far, only RAM is available for the PCMCIA
slot— In the form of New Media's PSram card,

and prices. Instead, use the information presented
here to figure out what kind of expansion — and par-
ticular combinations and con figurations — best suit
your needs, and then contact the manufacturer or
dealer to discuss price options. Consult the "Manu-
facturers'/Distributors" Addresses" list on p. 94 for
information on the developer of any product men-
tioned in this article.)

When I attached the PSram, I immediately found I
had four megs of fast RAM to go along with the two
megs of chip RAM that came with the system. The
only problem I had with the PSram was the unwieldi-
ness of having a card sticking out the left side of my
A 1200. On many occasions I bumped the card, but
luckily nothing bad happened as a result.

Thirty-two-bit RAM expansion is possible by plug-
ging one of a number of multipurpose boards into the
150-pin expansion slot. When adding memory, how-
ever, keep in mind that this slot is the only one avail-
able, so consider other kinds of expansion you may
want to undertake (all covered in this article) before
you decide on a source for your RAM. All of the boards
I tested use industry-standard SIMMs (single in-line
memory modules) in one-, two-, four-, eight-, and six-
teen-megabyte increments. These SIMMs are easy to

ACRONYMS EXPLAINED

SCSI, SCSI-2, PCMCIA . . . What do
all those acronyms stand for and
what do they mean for Amiga users?

SCSI (Small Computer Systems In-
terface; pronounced "scuzzy") and
SCSI-2 are two variations on one stan-
dard for connection and transfer of
data between computers and periph-
erals. Many hard disks, removable me-
dia, CD-ROM drives, and other stor-
age devices use the standard. Each
SCSI or SCSI-2 controller can manage
up to seven such devices. Theoretical-
ly, you should be able to control de-
vices conforming to either standard us-
ing either type of adapter, although to
do so the ROM chips on the controller
and the drive must be able to commu-
nicate.

The original SCSI standard was fine
for the systems available when it w r as
developed. Then, eight-bit systems
were abundant and 16-bit was emerg-
ing. But today's 32-bit and tomorrow's
64-bit systems will find that the eight-
bit SCSI standard hinders perfor-
mance. The new SCSI-2 standard ben-
efits owners of fast systems. SCSI-2
multitasks better than SCSI because it

disconnects from the device after issu-
ing or receiving a command, allowing
the interface to talk to another device
while the first device is processing.
SCSI-2 has two options that speed data
transfer: fast and wide. Fast increases
transfer speed so that with both op-
tions on, SCSI-2 can transfer up to
40MB per second compared to SCSI's
5MB per second. Wide brings the
number of bits transferred to a maxi-
mum of 32 to allow the same speed of
transfer as the RAM and processor in
the A 1200, A3000, and A4000— all 32-
bit machines.

In addition to the 50-pin connector
currently in use, the new standard adds
another cable with a 68-pin connector
to handle the extra bits being sent to
and from die devices connected with it.

Small But Mighty

PCMCIA, another peripheral-inter-
face standard, has roots in the palm-
top- and notebook-computer markets.
PCMCIA stands for Personal Comput-
er Memorv Card International Associ-

ation, the group that established the
standard for boosting memory in these
tiny machines. The credit-card-size
PCMCIA peripherals have since found
uses as interfaces for modems, hard
drives, static RAM, and standard dy-
namic RAM.

Only two Amigas — the A1200 and
A600— have a PCMCIA slot. These
.Amigas accommodate Types I and II
PCMCIA cards. Type I cards are about
3.3mm thick while Type II are 5mm;
the industry is currently developing a
10mm Type III standard (not Amiga-
slot compatible) to accommodate hard
drives. New Media — the sole company
to have marketed for the Amiga's
PCMCIA slot so far — has brought us
RAM cards. But because RAM cards
require no drivers, you can also use
PCMCIA RAM cards not designed
specifically for the Amiga. Other types
of peripherals are another matter.
Modems and other such devices re-
quire software drivers, so it's not sim-
ply a matter of plugging in. New : Me-
dia, which develops other types of
PCMCIA expanders for IBM-PCs and
compatibles, hopes to bring some of
those peripherals to the Amiga.

—MS

22 September 1993

E X P A i\ D I iX G

T I! F,

A I 2 «)

install and provide your system a good source of 32-
bit wide RAM. For faster applications, the 60-nanosec-
ond SIMMs are recommended because of their faster
access times.

Because all of the RAM expanders except the PSram
are part of multipurpose combination boards involv-
ing other kinds of expansion, descriptions of specific
products are presented further on in the article in the
section most appropriate to their main functions. You
can, however, check, out the "A1200 Expansion at a
Glance" box below for quick reference.

Should I Have a Math Coprocessor?

A number of different applications — from 3-D model-
ing to spreadsheets to CAD — will slow down your sys-
tem considerably because they involve floating-point
math calculations. Even structured-drawing programs
require such calculations when scaling down a picture.
The addition of a math coprocessor will reduce the
amount of calculation performed by the CPU and
speed up operations by allowing it to process instruc-
tions while the coprocessor is calculating. The rating
of a coprocessor is the actual processing speed of the
chip in megahertz, or millions of cycles per second.

Thus, a 14 MHz 68S81 processes at 14 million cycles
per second. The two coprocessors available presently
are the 68S81 and the 68882— with the difference be-
ing the optimization of the routines in the chip itself;
the 68882 processes floating-point calculations more
efficiently than a G8881.

I tested six boards that contained floating-point
units (FPUs) along with RAM. DKB Software's DKB
1202 (from SI 89.95) contains a 68881 FPU clocked
at 16 MHz, 8MB of 32-bit RAM, and a battery-backed,
real-time clock. The board installed relatively easily,
with a small semicircular notch ait at the end of the
board to allow your finger to get between the board
and the inside of the A1200. This allows you to gen-
tly push the board onto the 150-pin connector (which
was not the case with some of the other boards —
where installation proved to be a much more painful
experience).

The DKB 1202 provides room for two SIMMs in one-
or four-megabyte increments. The board will autocon-
figure eight megabytes if you are not using the PCM-
CIA port and four if the port is in use. DKB includes a
software utility to configure the rest of the memory in
such instances. I used the PCMCIA in all of my tests and
had no problem using the software to configure the

A1200 EXPANSION AT A GLANCE

PRODUCT

MANUFACTURER

PRICE

PSram

New Media

From $168

DKB 1202

DKB Software

From $189

The Clock"

DKB Software

$29.95

MBX 1200z

MIcroBotlcs

From $149

M1230XA

MIcroBotlcs

From $399

12A'Clock

MIcroBotlcs

$34.95

Power Box

EMC

$175

2 to 3, IDE

EMC

$50

Modular Expansion

EMC

$50

System"

A1200Scsi/RAM +

GVP

From $249

A 1230 Turbo +

GVP

From $699

Twelve Gauge

CSA

From $699

BaseBoarc! 1200c*

Expansion Systems

$18.95

BaseBoard 1203*

Expansion Systems

From $189

DataFlyer 1200s*

Expansion Systems

NA

XDS*

Expansion Systems

S99-S249

Viper 1230*

ICD

From S499

Viper S2*

ICD

$199

NakeD 1200*

Pre'spect Technics

NA

NOTES:

FPU Floating-point unit (i.e., math coprocessor — 68881 or 82).

RAM 32-bit RAM— unless otherwise designated as 16-bit.

Accelerator 68030 microprocessor.

Clock Battery- backed, real-time clock.

NA Not available.

* Not shipping as of time of writing, but due by publication time.

EXPANSION FUNCTIONS

2 or 4MB RAM( 16-bit)

FPU, RAM (to 8MB), Clock
Clock

FPU, RAM (to 8MB), Clock

Accelerator, FPU, RAM (»o 128MB), Clock

Clock

External drive chassis
External IDE connector
Expansion chassis

FPU, RAM (to 8MB), SCSI
Accelerator, FPU, RAM (to 32MB)

Accelerator, FPU, RAM (to 32MB), SCSI

Clock

FPU, RAM (to 8MB), Clock

SCSI

External HD chassis

Accelerator, FPU, RAM (to 32MB), Clock
SCSI

Zorro II Expansion Chassis

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A 1 2

RAM. The manual was easy to understand For the non-
technical user and described each step necessary to in-
stall the board and to add memory. Something inter-
esting I learned from reading the manual was that you
can use IBM-compatible 36-bit SIMMs ifyou can't find
Amiga-specific ones. With the extra RAM and co-
processor working together, floating-point calculations
were almost five times faster than with the 68020 with-
out a coprocessor.

The MicroBotics MBX A1200z (from S149) also
comprises a floating-point unit, 32-bit memory, and
real-time clock. By the time I got to this one, I was get-
ting pretty good at installing these boards. It didn't
have a notch for my finger, but I found that using a
pair of scissors to push the card onto the connector was
effective and kept the board and my fingers safe. The

manual consists of one double-sided 8.5x1 1-inch sheet
of paper, but all the necessary information is included
in a form that does not require you to be an engineer.
My I2G0zwas installed with a 14 MHz 68881 and 8MB
of 32-bit RAM, and 1 detected no noticeable difference
in speed between it and the DKB 1202. (Results of
benchmark tests for these and the other boards — pre-
sented in later sections — can be found in the "Bench-
mark Test Results" box below.)

What Kind of Hard Drive Should I Use?

Ifyou need only an IDE hard drive, I recommend you
buy an A1200 with the drive already installed and
avoid the unnecessary expense of having the dealer in-
stall it. You can buy the drive separately and install it

BENCI

HMAR

INTEGER

KTES1

GRAPHICS

[RES

FP

ULTS

COMPARED TO:

These bench-

A1200 with only PCM(

mark ii sts were

2.24

3.7

1.92

A500 (68000) No fast RAM

ptrrii H mill using

2.19

2.74

1.3

A2000 (68020) w/ fast RAM

0.36

1.56

0.14

A3000 (68030) 25 MHz

version 5.5 of

0.1 S

0.67

0.05

A4000 (68040) 25 MHz

AIBB. K.i, Ii

12 Gauge

system was

11.91

6.44

28.15

A500 No fast RAM

, onfigured with

11.61

4.78

1.3

A2000 w/ fast RAM

1.93

2.71

0.14

A3000 25 MHz

2MBol .hi|>

0.95

1.17

0.05

A4000 25 MHz

RAM. a 4MB
1 G-bit I'Siam

M1230XA (No 32-bil f

P< Mi [Acard,

3.93

4.54

4.52

A500 No fast RAM

with SMI', ni :!'J-

3.83

3.37

3.05

A2000 w/ fast RAM

0.63

1.91

0.32

A3000 25 MHz

bit RAM on

0.31

0.82

0.11

A4OO0 25 MHz

board.

A 1 230 Turbo +

9.71

5.44

22.13

A500 No fast RAM

9.47

4.03

14.94

A2000 w/ fast RAM

1.57

2.29

1.57

A3 000 25 MHz

0.78

0.99

0.53

A4000 25 MHz

DKB 1202

* Results for the

3.90

4.74

9.49

A500 No fast RAM

MI230XA are skewed

3.80

3.52

6.41

A2000 w/ fast RAM

because the AIBB pro-

0.63

2.00

0.67

A3000 25 MHz

gram would lock up

0.31

0.86

0.23

A4000 25 MHz

when the board was
configured with 32-blt

MBXA1200Z

RAM, Thus, only the

3.88

4.74

9.41

A500 No fast RAM

PCMCIA RAM (16-bit)

3.79

3.52

6.35

A2 000 w/ fast RAM

was used for the test.

0.63

1.99

0.67

A3000 25 MHz

From all other indica-

0.31

0.86

0.23

A4000 25 MHz

tions, 1 feel the
M1230XA performs on

GVPSCSI/RAM+

a level with the

3.88

4.72

9.92

A500 No fast RAM

Twelve Guage — but

3.78

3.50

6.70

A2000w/ fast RAM

this, of course, cannot

0.63

1.98

0.70

A3000 25MHZ

be verified from these

0.31

0.85

0.24

A4000 25 MHz

benchmark results.

2-1 September 1993

EXPANDING

THE

A 1 2

yourself (as I did), which can save you money but will
void your warranty. If you're not comfortable with that,
you may wish to let an authorized Commodore repair
center do the work.

If you want 3.5-inch and 5. 25-inch hard drives, they
won't fit inside your A1200 so you will need to come
up with some solutions. One is to have your dealer run
an IDE cable out through the back of the case to an ex-
ternal box with a power supply for your hard drive.
EMC offers such a box, the Power Box (SI 75), which
will hold two 5.25-inch drives. Even better is the fact
that the power supply for this box not only powers
both devices inside, but it also replaces your A1200's
power supply. Containing a useful cooling fan, the
Power Box also has openings at the front for easy ac-
cess to tape drives, CD-ROM drives, or removable hard
drives. EMC also offers the 2 to 3, IDE ($50), which is
an ingenious device intended to allow you to keep your
internal hard drive while still being able to access up
to two external IDE drives.

Many A1200 users feel that a SCSI controller
would offer more benefits because of the greater
availability of SCSI peripherals. Flatbed scanners,
CD-ROMS, large-capacity hard drives, and many
other mass-storage devices are SCSI-only. To let you
attach one of these devices, GVP offers the A1200
SCSI/RAM+ (from $249). The "plus" is a 68882 33
MHz math coprocessor. The device holds up to 8MB
of 32-bit RAM and has a built-in SCSI-2 controller
for an internal 2.5-inch SCSI drive. (See the
"Acronyms Explained" sidebar for details on the
new SCSI-2 standard.) GVP provides an optional
external cable to accommodate larger drives. Since
I did not have a 2.5-inch SCSI hard drive, I could
not test the SCSI controller on this card. The bench-
mark results show a slight increase in performance
over the DKB 1202 and the MBX A1200z.

CSA's Twelve Gauge accelerator combo board also
provides a built-in SCSI controller for the A 1200.
(See the following section for more on the Twelve
Gauge.)

Is the 680EC20 Fast Enough for Me?

The A1200's 680EC20 has a clock speed of 14 MHz,
mice that of the 68000. The fact that the 68000 is 16-
bit and the 68020 is 32-bit also means twice as much
data gets to the CPU on each cycle. Fortunately, the
custom chips are also 32-bit, which means that graph-
ics won't be falling behind the CPU. In benchmark
tests, the 68020 on average is almost four times faster
than the 68000, providing 32-bit RAM is present. Most
applications on the 68020-powered A 1 200 will run
smoothly and with enough speed without an accelera-
tor. However, if you do a lot of graphics work for video
or publishing, a 68030 is practically a necessity.

As of this writing, three 68030 accelerators are cur-
rently available (see the sidebar "Expansion on the

Three candidates for your A 1200 expansion bus: MicroBotics' A1200i
(bottom) combines RAM, FPU, and clock; CVP's A1200 SCSI, RAM -
(top) substitutes a SCSI controller for the clock; CSA's Twelve Guage
(center) offers RAM, FPU, SCSI controller, and a 68030 accelerator.

Horizon" on p. 26 for several more that are on the
way). GVP offers the A1230 Turbo+ (from S699),
which has a 68030, as well as an FPU and sockets for
up to 32 megs of 32-bit RAM. The unit I tested had a
40 MHz 68030, a 40 MHz 68882, and 8MB of RAM.
The system virtually screamed through the bench-
marks. GVP includes some utilities that allow 1 you to
map Kickstart to RAM to allow the system to speed up
system calls. In the benchmarks, the significant differ-
ence came in the graphics category, because Intuition
is called in many graphics operations.

Installation of the A1230 was easy. The software on
the disk is in the same drawers that you need to copy
them to on your hard drive, so you don't even need to
read the directions — although I recommend you do so
with any of the boards you install.

MicroBotics' contender in this category, the
M1230XA (from S399) is an accelerator that allows
more RAM (up to 128MB) than any other card, a math
coprocessor, and a real-time clock. The unit I tested,
however, showed poor results in the benchmarks due
to the fact that the AI1JB program would not recognize
the 32-bit memory after 1 had run the SETXA utility.

"THE QUESTIONS YOU HAVE TO ASK BEFORE BUYING

AN EXPANSION DEVICE ARE IMPORTANT, BECAUSE ONLY ONE

BOARD CAN BE USED AT A TIME."

AmigaWortd 25

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A I 2

Unless I did not configure the memory with the in-
cluded software, the benchmark program would lock
up on me while trying to evaluate the system. Other-
wise, the system worked well with all my other software.
My test unit contained a 50 MHz 68030, a 50 MHz
68882 FPU, and 8MB of RAM. From all indications, I
feel certain the M1230XA would have performed as
well as the CSA Twelve Gauge (see below).

The unit I enjoyed the most was the Twelve Gauge
(from S699) from CSA. As the name suggests, the
Twelve Gauge takes a shotgun approach to expansion
and tries to cover all aspects on one board. The unit I
tested contained a 50 MHz 68030 and a 50 MHz

EXPANSION ON THE
HORIZON

WHAT DOES THE future
hold for our A1200s?
From the number of products
already on the market, it looks
good. And from the spate of
new A1200 products that are
being readied for imminent re-
lease, it looks even better.

Expansion Systems, de-
velelopers of the BaseBoard se-
ries of Amiga expansion prod-
ucts, has a line of products for
the A1200 that should be avail-
able by the time you read this.
Its BaseBoard 1208 (from
SI 89) provides up to 8MB of
32-bit RAM, a 16 MHz 68881
FPU, and a real-time clock. An
Optional SCSI controller, the
DataFlyer 1200s, will also be
available for further SCSI ex-
pansion options. In addition.
Expansion Systems will offer
the DataFlyer XDS Expansion
Drive System (from S99 to
$249), which, in different ver-
sions, will accommodate exter-
nal 3. 5-inch IDE and SCSI dri-
ves, as well as other 5.25-inch
SCSI storage media. A stand-
alone, battery-backed clock/
calendar, the BaseBoard
1200c ($18.95), will also be
available.

.Also, DKB Software's clock-
only board, The Clock (S 29,95),
should be out by the time you
read this.

Meanwhile, EMC, which has
released the Power Box and
the 2 to 3, IDE covered in this

article, plans to introduce the
A1200 Modular Expansion
System (f 50), which will allow
you to fit two expansion boards
in the A1200's trap-door 150-
pin expansion slot.

By the time you read this,
ICD should be shipping an
ambitious A1200 expansion
system, the Viper 1230 (from
S499), which offers a '030 ac-
celerator, real-time clock, and
sockets for up to 32MB of 32-
bit RAM expansion and a math
coprocessor. The Viper ]230's
DMA port will also accommo-
date the Viper S2 (SI 99), a
plug-in card with internal and
external SCSI-2 connectors.

Also, Pre'spect Technics is
busily testing an Al 200 version
of the NakeD interface to al-
low A 1200 users access to
A2000 cards. Slated for August
release, it will add up to two
Zorro II slots to the A1200.

As you can see, with all the
upgrade products — current or
nearly ready to ship — your
A1200 will do just about every-
thing except run a bridge-
board. And, if you wait a 'little
while, who knows what our
third-party genuises will bring
to market next? Z — MS

Editor's Note: AW will be covering
these items as they become avail-
able. Also, look for a comparison
of A 1200 hard-drive control op-
lions in our December issue.

68882, along with 8MB of 32-bit RAM and an exter-
nal SCSI controller. The latter is easy to install. You can
even remove the trap door to the right of the mouse
port and replace it with a DB-25 SCSI connector with-
out voiding the warrant)'! This connector screws into
the case in a screw hole that Commodore provided for
just such an application.

fhe board itself is installed under the Al 200 on the
150-pin connector where it meets with the other end
of the 25-pin SCSI cable. I mounted my 50MB Quan-
tum SCSI hard drive inside the EMC Power Box and
ran the SCSI cable to the DB-25 connector and hooked
up. As soon as the system powered up, the drive boot-
ed up on my SCSI drive. By this time, I had three hard
drives attached to the A1200 (the internal 80-meg, the
170-meg Conner in the Power Box, and now the 50-
meg Quantum), and all of them wanted to boot. I rec-
ommend making only one drive bootable, but these
drives are from other systems and I didn't want to re-
format them.

The only problem I see with the Twelve Gauge is
that it needs a cooling fan. The Al 200 is not very well
ventilated, and with all of those heat-producing chips
on one board, the temperature increases quickly. In
fact, the Twelve Gauge was the hottest board I used. It
did. however, outperform all the boards tested in the
benchmarks — including a floating-point score that was
28 times faster that the standard A500 with no fast
RAM and no coprocessor.

What Time Is It?

Resetting the system clock every time you start your
AI200 is an inconvenience. The manufacturers of the
MBX A1200z and M1230XA (MicroBotics) and the
1202 (DKB) agree, and each includes a battery-
backed, real-time clock that the system automatically
reads on startup, MicroBotics also offers the 12
A'Clock ($34.95), a stand-alone, battery-backed clock
that attaches to the A1200's clock port. The installa-
tion is easy, but requires the opening of the case and
voiding of the warranty. If you buy one of the boards
with a built-in clock, you must disable either the 12
A'Clock or the clock on the new board, or serious
damage will result to your A1200.

As you can see, the questions you have to ask before
buying an expansion board are important, because only
one board can be used at one time. If you know that you
will need only a floating-point unit, a clock, and 8MB
of 32-bit RAM, then vour choice lies between the MBX
A1200z and the DKB 1202. If you think you will also
require a SCSI device, then the GVP SCSI/RAM + and
the 12 AClock combination is for you. Want an accel-
erator, FPU, and memory? Either the 12 A'Clock and
GVP A 1230 Turbo + or the M1230XAby itself will do
the job. As far as accelerating your A1200 and using
SCSI drives, the only choice as of now is the Twelve
Gauge — although some alternatives are on their way
(see the "Expansion on the Horizon" sidebar). ■

Micheal Savoie, a part-time software developer and freelance
writer, is an Amiga enthusiast whose experience spans the en-
tire development of the Amiga line from the A J 000 to the
A 1200. Write to him c/o AmigaWorld, Editorial Dept., 80
Elm St., Peterborough, NH 03458.

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EDWARDJUDICE

What distinguishes these three new releases from Commodore?
The CPU, the hard-drive controller, and the monitor
all have drawing power.

9y Tim Walsh

and
SFicidon

THE LATEST PRODUCTS to come oil" Commodore's production lines may not be revolutionary, but they are

important for the Amiga market. Here's proof: The newest CPU (the Amiga 4000/030) has a price tag attrac-
tive enough to make Commodore's most advanced computer much more accessible. The new 1942 monitor
improves on the I960 model by offering new features and a lower price. And finally, Commodore's 4091 bard-
drive controller incorporates the improved SCSI-2 standard, offering A4000 owners a Commodore path to fan-
tastic performance and more options.

MACHINERY FOR THE MASSES

Polite applause, hut no standing ovations, greeted the initial announcement of the A4000/030 at the World of Ami-
ga show in April. The original A4000, with its super-fast 08040 processor, had been out tor more than half a year by
that time, and those spoiled by its power were disinterested in the slower (albeit more affordable) 68030 technology.

Its reason for being is sound, though. The '030-based A4000 is less costly to produce, and can be sold at a
substantially lower price than the 68040 version (S2399 vs. $3699). Several Commodore executives we spoke
with were confident that this lower price "would attract new blood to the market. While the question of how well
new users will react to an '030-based machine in 1 993 remains to be answered, the A4000/030 could prove very
important to the market, and may outsell the A4000/040.

Except for the processor and a single digit in the identification label on the front panel, the Amiga 4000/030
is functionally and cosmetically the same as the A4000/040 (see "The Amiga 4000," Nov. '92, p. 30 and "The
Soul of the New Machines," March '93, p. 40 for details). ACA graphics and AmigaDOS 3.0 support are still
there; inside, you'll find the same 120MB IDE hard drive, same number of slots (three PC, four Amiga Zorro
II/III, one video), and the same high-densitv ( 1 .7MB) floppy drive. *-

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I' R I) I ' C T S

All AGA-supported software and standard Amiga
hardware will find itself right at home with the
A4000/030. For instance, NewTek's Toaster 4000 in-
stalled nicely into the 4000/030 and all systems
seemed to function well. With a slightly weakened pro-

The Amiga 4000/030

js slipMry slower,

but much less

expensive.

cessing arm, however, the '030-
based A4000 can't throw the
curve balls quite as fast as the
original.

Using I.aMonte Koop's (Amiga
Intuition Based Benchmarks) ver-
sion 6.1 to measure speed. I found
that the A4000/030 was roughly
407c slower than the '040 version
in all hut one of the graphics tests;
LineTesl matched both proces-
sors at the same speed. "litis LincTest result is about
42% faster than that of the 25 MHz Amiga 3000. And
the A4000/030 measured 807c faster on the WritePfat-
el test and 509r faster with the Kllipse trial. Otherwise,
the new machine's speed was pretty much on par with
the A3000. All this means is that the A4000's perfor-
mance is comparable to the A3000's for using most
utilities and applications programs, and that paint and
3-D graphics software will run 50-80% faster on the
new A4000. Unless the two A4000 models are run side-
by-side, even long-term '040 users will be hard-pressed
to notice much difference in daily use.

Finally, the '030 processor is upgradable; according
to Commodore, any accelerator card you can fit into the
box will work. And. the Super-Buster chip (which you'll
soon see the importance of) is socketed — not surface-
mounted— in all A4000/030s made after April, 1993
(which is the time the A400O/03O went into production).

SPEED FOR STORAGE

The Amiga 4000 has been hailed as the machine that
has everything — except a SCSI controller. Commodore
had two explanations for this glaring omission. First,
the IDE bard -drive controller the company did include
reduced cost and time investment Second, CBM didn't
waul to rush the design of a SCSI controller and end

up with a run-of-the-mill implementation. Bv taking
more time. Commodore hoped lo create a state-of'-the-
ai'l con I roller to support new SCSI-2 specifications.

The A4091 (S379) is that controller — and it's Com-
modore's first 32-bit DMA Zorro-III card. Although
the Zorro-III bus was introduced with the Amiga 3000
in mid- 1990, no cards have taken real advantage of
this high-speed I/O architecture. Without cards lo test,
a bug in the original Zorro III DMA design went un-
noticed throughout the production of the A3000, and
well into the that of the A4000. This means not only
that the 4091 won'twork on an Amiga 3000 (no crush-
ing loss, as the A3000 has a built-in SCSI port), but that
most A4000 models bought before July, 1993 require
updating to use the 4091.

The key component is the Super-Buster chip. If the
part number on your Super-Buster has a suffix of -09
or less, it must be replaced with one that has a suffix
of -1 1 or greater (the first batch of 4091"s include this
chip in the box). Unfortunately, all of the Amiga 4000s
produced before the bug was spotted have the Super-
Busier soldered to the motherboard, meaning that a
motherboard swap is necessary lo work with the 4091 .

Computers produced after the bug's discover)- have
the Super-Buster socketed, and require only a chip
swap. The square PLCC chip is difficult to remove
without the proper tool, so have an authorized dealer
make the switch. Just checking to see whether yon have

The A4091 offers a
fast SCSI-2 stlatioi-
bat chcclE yoar chips!

the right chip involves disassem-
bling the computer; see if your
dealer will include installation as
pari of your purchase.

This Just In

The 409 1 is a full-length card, with
space on the card to mount a 3-
1 /2-inch drive. Because its long
SCSI cable has connectors for
every possible mounting spot (six
in all), it is easy to attach your drive to the card or one
of the AlOOO's internal drive bays. To install the card,
you need only remove the two screws holding the cov-
er, plug it into a slot, and put the case back on.

Software installation is also easy. A utilities disk thai
comes with the drive contains the standard Com-
modore installation software. The software updates the
68040. library and Setpatch files forpre-3.1 machines,

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and allows you to partition and format ihc drive using
the same HDToolBox software IDE drives use.

The several hardware-configuration options arc con-
trolled by DIP switches on the rear mounting bracket of
the 4091 instead of the usual jumper pads on the board
itself. These switches let you enable or disable SCSI Fast
Bus mode, Synchronous mode, and the recognition of
Logical Unit Numbers (LL'N's) — without opening the
computer. There are also switches to delay booting (for
devices needing lime to spin up), change the SCSI ad-
dress of the controller (which normally delimits to de-
vice 7), and turn the board's active termination on or off.
The card's mounting bracket also has a connector for
an external SCSI drive, but rather than the 25-pin D-
shell connector we've come to expect, the 4091 has a
smaller, high-density SCSI-2 connector. Until SCSI-2
becomes more widespread, vou may have a hard time
finding cables for this connector.

Astounding Speed

The controller performed impressively even under
iess-tban-ideal conditions. The test computer was a
4000/030 (the only machine we had on hand with a
socketed Super-Buster chip): and the test drive (which
the AS000 SCSI controller stumbled over but the 4091
accepted) was an ordinary Maxtor 2 1 3M B SCSI drive.
Using a 256K buffer, Diskspeed showed writes to be al-
most as fast as reads — and among the fastest we've
seen on a standard SCSI drive. Even with a IK buffer,
the reads were over 700KB per second — near the max-
imum transfer rate of the drive (we'd never before seen
such speeds with a small buffer). Willi this kind of per-
formance on an ordinary drive, it is safe to expect
transfer rates of several megabytes per second with a
high-performance SCSI-2 drive.

Just as impressive was the CPU-availability part of
the test, which showed that these speedy disk transfers
used less than 30% of the main processor's lime. This
multitasking muscle will come in band) for multi-
media applications.

The 4091 documentation is good. Along with its
detailed installation instructions, it offers good infor-
mation on SCSI devices, including the sometimes-mys-
terious topic of SCSI termination.

The A4091 is a high-performance SCSI alternative
for those who need more oomph than the A4000's
IDE interface provides. At a street price of more than
S300, it is more expensive than other controllers and
not cost effective if you want only to connect with a slow
SCSI device such as CD-ROM, removable-media, or a
tape-backup drive. Those who need its performance,
however, will find it worth the price. We are just be-
ginning to see applications that use a hard drive to
record and play lull-motion video in real time, for ex-
ample. Such uses require data transfer of several
megabytes each second, a feat that only a controller
like I he 4091 can accomplish. Time will make us fur-
ther appreciate the power of the 4091.

size, die same .2<S mm dot pitch for sharp displays, and
a 15.6 to 31.5 Kl 1/ horizontal scan range for compat-
ibility with the Amiga's various display modes. So what
sets the 1942 apart? Three things: price (at $479 it's
significantly less than ihe 1960), built-in stereo speak-
ers, and more controls on the front panel.

Because neither the 1950 nor 1900 had sound-out-
put capability, a little creativity — and some extra cash
for speakers — was in order to get sound from them.
And instead of a few controls on the side of the mon-
itor (as with the 1950) or in a small area on the front
(as with the 1960), the 1942 has a full panel of con-
trols conveniently placed across the bottom of the dis-
play. Notable arc the Overscan and Volume controls;
more intuitive labeling (such as "overscan" in place of

A BETTER MONITOR

The new 1942 monitor, which replaces Com-
modore's earlier 1950 and I960 models, has much in
common with them. Il has the same 13-inch screen

"ADD-NOR") make using the

monitor a little easier.

The 1 942 connects to and works
with Amigas just as the other mul-
tisvnes did. Vou can use the mon-
itor on any Amiga with the help of
Commodore's 23-to- 1 5-pin video-
port adapter (part number
390682-0 1 ), which comes bundled
with the AGA machines. (Concern-
ing a horizontal screen-shift problem
■when using the 1942 with the A 1200,
issue, p. 86). The 1942 offers flicker
in all modes when used with AGA Amigas, and works
fine with the .Amiga 3000, as well, right out of the box.
Oilier non-AGA Amigas remain cursed with the fa-
miliar llicker in hi-res modes even with [he adapter in
place (lo-res screens display line in any case), unless
you add a flicker-elimination card. (Note: As this article
was going to press, Commodore sent its a new 1 942 setup pro-
gram on disk, which provides new Overscan Preferences. Be
sure to ask for this disk — available from dealers and autho-
rized service centers — if you're purchasing a 1942.) ■

TbE 1942 monitor
not only has speakers,

nut o hEddphonf
jock, too.

see Help Key in this
free hi-res screens

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AMIGA PRINTER OUTPUT

...Getting So Much Better

the Time!

We must admit that the newest generation of

ink-jet and laser printers is definitely getting

better — sharper, sleeker, faster, cheaper — and that

there's no better time to buy.

ALTHOUGH NOT QUITE as far back as the era of the Fab Four, there
was a time I can remember when ink-jet printers cost a year's college tu-
ition and yon could get a few refrigerators for the price of a good laser.
In fact, just about the only printer anybody could afford was the venera-
ble dot-matrix. Soon, however, those "chatterboxes" — some of which vi-
brated so badly that they literally walked across your desk — -will be as much a part of
the past as Sgt. Pepper and Eleanor Rigby.

The newest crop of ink-jets and lasers — with sharp new features and sharply reduced
price lags — is finally threatening to bury the dot-matrix once and (brail. In fact, un-
less you're holding out for a color laser printer (they won't be dropping below $10,000
for awhile), much like Ralph Kramden was waiting for 3-D TV, there's never been a
better lime to buy a new printer for your Amiga.

Today, for ever more reasonable prices, you can own your dream printer — be it a
crisp black-and-white ink-jet, super-high-resolution laser, or even a 300-dpi (dots per
inch) color printer. The half-dozen printers we've lined up for you are the cutting
edge of what's available — and reasonably affordable (ranging in price from $449 to
$2399) — and I think you'll find there's something here for everyone. (To contact the
manufacturers of printers presented in this article, consult the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Ad-
dresses" list on p. 94.)

The Jet Set

Ink-jet primers have matured. They are faster, cheaper, and — best of all — they've
abandoned specially coated paper for ordinary plain paper. Representing ink-jets in
our mini-survey are two of the newest: Epson's Stylus 800 and Canon's Bubble Jet
200 — both retailing for S449. (Note: For a side-by-side comparison of all six printers pre-
sented in this article, see the char! on p. 35.) '

BY DAVE JOHNSON

PHOTOGRAPH BY HOWARD pim E

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The Stylus 800 represents Epson's attempt to re-en-
ler the market where it was once a household name.
The Stylus is a fairly small printer, with a convenient pa-
per-loading mechanism right in front. The printer case
is made of thin plastic that, while I'm sure is reasonably
sturdy, didn't seem nearly as tough as most other print-
ers around. Nor did I like the printer cover, which de-
fies the laws of physics somewhat in that it looks easy
to open, but isn't. Although the cover hinges freely, it
must be opened via a small recessed lip — which my fin-
gers manage to miss more than half the time.

The biggest drawback to this machine, however, is
its output. The Stylus produces hardcopy that looks as
if it came from a 24-pin dot-matrix printer — right
down to the very pronounced banding. I had originally
suspected that 1 wasn't using a particularly good print-
er driver, but after experimenting with a wide variety
of them and getting varying results — some bad, some
better, none great — I tried the Stylus through Win-
dows on my PC and got essentially the same results.

Canon, on the other hand, has developed quite a
reputation with its Bubble Jet series of ink-jets. While
the BJ-lOex (S349) is a true portable, complete with
NiCad battery pack and profile almost small enough
to slip in your pocket, I was most impressed with the
BJ-200's near-portable specs and fast speed. The BJ-
20(1 is, in fact, more than small enough to throw in your
suitcase to deliver near-laser output anywhere. It sim-
ply lacks a battery power system, although that's not a
problem unless you plan to print a thesis from the
back of your car. The tiny- printer holds a surprising
70 sheets of paper, and output is very good — better,
,K lually, than some lasei s.

"Any Colour You Like"

If you haven't noticed, the market (not the price) for
color printers is currently rocketing out of sight. As a
consequence, there is now a wide variety of affordable
color printers in our midst. Ai the high end, Canon of-
fers the BJC-800 ($1999), a 360-dpi color version of
its respected Bubble Jet line. The technique Canon
uses to gel pigment on the page differs somewhat from
the more traditional ink-jet approach Hewlett- Packard
takes — and it shows. The BJC-800 offers the brightest,
most saturated colors of any printer you can buy cheap-
er than a sports car.

The BJC-800's minimal control pane! makes it easy
to configure. Even so, it's likely that the only reason
you will ever need to fiddle with the LCD menu is to
change print modes if you use transparency slides or
plain paper. Mechanically, the printer feeds much like
a dot-matrix, with the paper resting up front, passing
under the rollers and out the back into the output tray.
While most types of paper dry quickly, certain print
stock, like transparencies, should be printed one sheet
ai a time lo prevent smearing. When it comes time to
replace ink, the cartridges are very easy to get to be-
cause they are not a part of the moving print head. In-
stead, there's an "ink garage" behind a hinged panel
right in front of the machine.

As for print quality-, the BJC-800 is just about un-
cqualed. Commodore rloes not supply any drivers with
Workbench that can talk to this printer, though Wolf
Faust's commercial Studio Printer driver (S99.95, Mario
Systems) works superbly. (Note: See "Driver* Education,"

p. 39, for complete information on Amiga printer drivers.)

Hewlett-Packard's family of color ink-jets offers an-
other alternative. The DeskJet family begins with the
DeskJet 500 ($479), a black-and-white printer visually
identical to the DeskJet 500C ($619), a three-ink col-
or printer. Unlike the older, 180-dpi PaintJet, the
500C prints at a full 300 dpi. HP's new DeskJet 550C
(S879) adds a second ink cartridge that prints true
black along with color. (There's even a newer option:
the DeskJet 1 200— S 1 699— which essentially is a tur-
bo version of the 550C designed to print a lot of col-
or, very quickly; yet it doesn't fundamentally improve
on the print engine of the 550C.)

With so many choices, which HP printer should you
be looking at? Well, the choice is easy if all you need
is gray-scale output. If you need to choose between the
500C and the 550C, however, you must consider what
kind of color printing you plan lo do. Lots of text-in-
tegrated graphics, such as in the sample output com-
parisons that accompany this article, demand the pure
black of the 550C. The older 500C tries to duplicate
black by mixing the other three colors, and the results
are not at all pretty. If you mainly print color graph-
ics with little text, however, you can save some money
by going with the 500C.

The nemesis of any ink-jet system, particularly a col-
or one, is ink density and the paper's associated dry-
ing time. Unlike the Bubble Jet's direct paper feed, the
DeskJet uses a clever mechanism to suspend output as
it prints, giving the ink significantly more time lo dry
before it is stacked in the output tray. Unlike other
printers, which have one footprint when you take them
out of the box and quite another when you actually try
to use them, the Deskjet has no tech no-flange folding
widgets that double its size at print time. A large pa-
per tray hides under the output tray right in front of
the machine, and all controls are right up front.

Unfortunately, in comparison to the Bubble Jet, you
get what you pay for wiien it comes to print quality. If
you choose to buy a 550C, go ahead and get the Cre-
ative focus Super DJC2 primer driver ($50 — see '"Dri-
ver Education") at the same time; it's indispensable.
Output from the DeskJet can be average to very good,
depending on how you configure the printer settings.
Even at its best, though, it never quite matches that of
the Bubble Jet. Hewlett-Packard glossy paper achieves
the brightest colors but, even so, banding in the graph-
ics is still evident. Despite the best paper and settings,
I could still detect very slight smearing in text, some-
thing I never encountered with the Bubble Jet.

The Laser's Edge

There are three broad categories of laser printers float-
ing around today: the common 300-dpi engines, those
that offer variable-size dots to give the impression of
resolution higher than 300 dpi, and true high-resolu-
tion 600- or 1200-dpi models. While many magazines
are primed at 1200 dpi, 600 dpi is more than suitable
for most professional applications, being a full four
times more dense than 300-dpi output, litis resolution
has finally reached the masses with the new Hewlett-
Packard LaserJet 4M, which retails for S2399. (The
non-PostScript version, the LaserJet 4, goes for SI 759.)
{Editor's Note: We did not receive the LaserJet 4M in time
for inclusion in the main article, but for details on this print-

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er see the accompanying sidebar "Hewlett the Fourth." In-
formation on features of the LaserJet 4M is also contained in
the comparison chart below.)

The Canon LBP-4sx ($1595) is one of the first print-
ers to offer a feature previously seen only in the now-
discontinued LaserJet III: 300-dpi output with HRC
{high-resolution control). In theory, HRC can be used
to smooth the output around curves and angled lines,
reducing jaggics and giving the impression of higher
resolution. The 4sx is the little brother to the LBP-tfsx

(S2395), a machine that might grab your interest if you
need a heavy-duty printer with a built-in 200-page pa-
per tray capable of printing at eight pages per minute.
The 4sx sets up in minutes. Although there is no sep-
arate "quick start" manual, I was printing my first test
page about 15 minutes after closing the door on the
FedEx truck. The printer is attractively styled with a
long strip of pressure-sensitive buttons along the front.
Unfortunately, the paper loads from the side — the
longer dimension to begin with — and requires you to i

PRINTER COMPARISON CHART

CANON

BJC-800

HEWLETT-PACKARD
DJS50C

CANON

•4SX

HEWLETT-PACi

TYPE

4-color Inkjet

4-color Inkjet

B&W inkjet

Laser

B&W inkjet

Laser

PRICE

$1999

$879

$449

$1595

S449

$2399

RESOLUTION

(dots per inch)

360

300

360

300

360

300, 600

PAPER TYPE

Coated best
Plain OK

Coated best
Plain OK

Plain

Plain

Plain

Plain

# SHEETS'
Paper
Envelopes
Transparency

100
5

1

100
20

1

100
10

1

70

5
20

100

1

100

250
10
75

FOOTPRINT 2
Width
Height
Depth

20.5
6.5/12
16/23

17.5

8.2

15.3

13.7
6.8
7.6/18

16.4/21
8.5
13.6

17.1

6
10.4/14.5

16,4

11.7/17

15.9

SPEED 3
Rated

PageStream

Text

Graphic

300cps

8:00

:24

2:10

240 cps
11:00
:16
8:00

1 73 cps
2:15
:18

1:12

4 ppni

1:30

:27

1:35

300 cps

9:30

:24

1:39

8ppm
n/a 4
n/a 4
n/a"

REPLACE INK

700 p text
400 p graphics

1000 p text
200 p graphics

500 p

3500 p

700 p

6000 p

$24 black
$34 each color

$31.95 black
$34.95 color

S25

$95

$19.95

$150

PORT

Parallel

SCSI (optional)

Parallel
Serial

Parallel

Parallel
Serial

Parallel

Parallel
Serial

BEST DRIVERS

Studio

BJ-Epson

Creative Focus

Super-DJC2

Workbench
BJ-10

Any U II
or U III

Studio
Pinprinter

Workbench

PostScript

COMMENTS

Best color
output

Best gray

output

Portable

Hi-Res color

Optional high-
capacity tray

PostScript

Optional
Ethernet

1 Maximum capacity of printer's primary paper tray.

2 Second number indicates size of printer fully deployed for printing.

3 Rated speed is supplied by manufacturer. Other values indicate time required to print test page 1 in PageStream,

one page of text in ProWrite, and a Workbench screen print. Printer driver and processor speed will affect actual print time.

4 Because the HP LaserJet 4M arrived late in the process, AW was unable to perform these speed tests.

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PRINTERS ROIXDUP

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hese sample printouts
demonstrate how five
different devices handle
such things as color and
black-and-white text,
skin tones in a scanned
photo, color line art, and
reflective surfaces in a
hi-res 3-D rendering. In
generating these prints,
I used the best driver for
each printer (specified
in the table on p. 35).
From left to right, re-
sults are shown for
Canon's BJC-80O,
Hewlett Packard's
DeskJet 550C, Canon's
BJ-200 and LBP 4sx (the
latter using a LaserJet II
driver), and Epson's
Stylus 800. — DJ

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fold out the paper tray in a sprawling configuration
you may not appreciate if you have limited desk space.
The printer had hut centimeters to spare in my office.
You might be attracted to this primer as an afford-
able compromise on the road 10 (500 dpi. High-Reso-
lution Control holds the promise of output that looks
much snazzier than run-of-the-mill laser copy at a frac-
tion of the cost of the LaserJet 4M. Regrettably, HRC
doesn't quite live up to its promise. It was very difficult,
though nol entirely impossible, loser l he difference be-

HEWLETT THE FOURTH

FOR SEVERAL YEARS I
had promised myself a
good printer, and when
HP's LaserJet 4M hit the market,
f decided to splurge. In (he past
five years I have graduated from
ii Citizen dot-matrix printer to an
HP DeskJet 500 and now to a
LaserJet 4M. The change in qual-
ity from the dot-matrix to the
DeskJet was no more dramatic
than the change to the Ijiseijet
4M. And, the4M is fast.

The LaserJet 4 family replaces
HP's eariler LaserJet II and III se-
ries. The brand-new 4L ($849) and
4ML (|1279) models are now the
lowest-priced Laserjets, offering
enhanced 300-dpi printing. The
main difference is thai the 4 ML ac-
commodates the PostScript page-
description language for greater
compatibility with high-end print
applications. As such, it provides
more RAM than the 41. and more
internal scalable fonts (HO as op-
posed to 26). Both units prim at a
rale of four pages per minute
(ppm), as opposed lo ilic eight
ppm rale of the 4 and 4M models.
The LaserJet 4 ($1759) has the
same relationship to the 4M
(S2399) as the 4L does to the
4ML — that is, PostScript differen-
tiates them. The printer can do
true 300x300 dpi priming (like a
LaserJet II) and enhanced 300x
300-dpi (as the LaserJet III. 41..
and 4ML), in addition to the su-
perior 600x600 dpi.

My 4M was easy to set up and
occupies no more desk space than
the Deskjet it replaced, although I
made room behind to access the
back in case I need to remedy pa-
per jam. Although I haven't yet
had a paper jam, I did experience
multiple page feeds until I began

using Hopper Paper's Nekoosa
Laser 1000 paper. The 4M's quiet
whine-and-clunk paper- feed
sound is very easily tolerated and
in fact reassuring.

Control is by means of multi-
function buttons and a "function"
key. It's easy to follow the menus
displayed on the LED without the
manual, and to set fonts from the
pane] (though this can be time-
consuming because of all the
choices). The documentation con-
tains everything I've needed, al-
though it's organized as a "user
manual" rather than a "reference
manual," which I would prefer.

I use a LaserJet II at work,
where I generally need a small font
to get 96 to 132 columns of text At
those densities, the 300-dpi fonts
start looking thick and clunky: the
DeskJet's are worse, showing dots.
The tascrjet 4M"s 600-dpi print,
by contrast, produces a delicate 80-
column-capablc Courier 10 font.
The lines are unbelievably crisp
and thin; there are no visible dots.
And graphics print so much better
than on the DEC 300-dpi printer
I used before — muddiness changes
to detail.

The PostScript capability eats
into die space used for image RAM
on the printer. The RAM chips are
industry -standard SIMMs, and the
PostScript capability is on a special
PROM-based SIMM, hence the
4M cannot expand to as much
memory as the LaserJet 4. With
room for 32MB, however, that is
not much of a problem.

TTiis is the best printer invest-
ment I have made despite the
roughly $2000+ price tag. I rec-
ommend the LaserJet 4 series
highly. D

—Joanne Dow

tween printouts rendered with HRC in its highest and
lowest settings. Unless you include a magnifying glass
with every newsletter you print, this feature simply isn't
worth the cost. Surprisingly, I preferred the output of
my own HP LaserJet IIP to this printer for graphics.

Choice Picks

And in the end, the prints you take arc equal to the
prints you make. In a less Beatlesque way, the bottom
line for any printer is how good is its output. Be-
tween color printers, I found the BJC 800's output
to be clearly superior. It was also easier to get there,
as the DeskJet demanded some tweaking to get the
same kinds of results as the Bubble Jet gave me on
the first try. CM' course, keep in mind that the Desk-
Jet is less than half of the Bubble Jet's not-incon-
siderable price.

While I'd wholeheartedly recommend die Studio print-
er driver for die Bubble Jet. Creative Focus's Super DJC2
driver is clearly superior when handling the DJ 550C. If
you use PageStream, by all means bypass Soft-Logik's
custom drivers and prim through Preferences.

As for black-and-white output, the Stylus doesn't
quite live up to the quality we've come to expect in ink-
jets today. Instead, I'd put my money on the BJ 200,
an ink-jet with the best output I've ever seen, or the HP
DJ 500, a great printer with a solid repuiaiion. As for
the Canon's LBP-4sx and its High-Resolution Con-
trol, it's perhaps an interim feature of dubious value,
like putting airbags on horse saddles. Make due with
a 300-dpi laser printer or save your pennies for a
LaserJet 4M.

If, on the other hand, you are trying to decide be-
tween a laser and an ink-jet and print speed is a cri-
teria, remember that an ink-jet will take the same
amount of time to print each copy of a page, while a
laser is a "page printer"; once it builds a page in mem-
ory, successive copies take very little time to print (four
pages per minute, or faster).

As you can see, it's a whole new world of printers out
there. While people once settled for dot-matrix print-
ers as the only affordable alternative, you can now have
your pick of the printer lot. Remember a Few lilies,
however. Don't pay for features you'll never use, like
a printer with a built-in serial or SCSI port. If you nev-
er use printer fonts, don't buy a printer with 50 of
them. Do pay for features you need right up front,
though. It's usually cheaper to buy a printer with a
built-in 250-sheet paper tray than to add one to an
"economy printer" later.

And don't settle for the salesman's preprinted
demos. Bring a disk with your own files to print. If you
can't do that, such as ifyou shop at a big PC chain store
that doesn't cany Amigas, print the next best thing.
For instance, if you regularly use PageStream, have
the salesman produce a document in AmiPro with
some full-color graphics. Good luck printer shop-
ping — and don'i forget to donate that old dot-matrix
printer to a worthy cause! ■

Dave Johnson is the author of the book The Desktop Stu-
dio; Multimedia With the Amiga, and is a frequent
contributor lo Amiga-related as well as other publications.
Write lo him c/o AmigaWorld. Editorial Dept., 80 Elm St.,
Peterborough, Nil 03458.

38 September 1993

AMIGA PRINTER OUTPUT — 2

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Driver

ED UC ATI On

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Like learning to drive a car, making full use of your printer's many junctions

and options is difficult at first. Follow this "Driver's Ed." course

in mastering printer drivers and other specialized software, and you 11 have a license

to print anything you wish in no time flat.

tt

w

ill this primer work with the
Amiga?" If you've ever asked
a salesperson this question
only to be met with a puzzled
silence, you're nol alone. Fortunately, "1 don't know"
doesn't necessarily mean "it won't work." Whether or
not printer vendors realize it, the Amiga works well
with virtually all popular printers, and most of the
more obscure models as well. Since most manufac-
turers are not familiar with the Amiga, however, it is
up to you to find out how to make a particular print-
er work with your computer.

There are actually two compatibility issues involved
here: the hardware interlace and software support.
Luckily, the hardware interface isn't much of a con-
cern. Every Amiga model except the Amiga 1000 uses
standard IBM-PC type connectors for its parallel and
serial ports. Nearly all PC printers use a Centronics
type parallel interface, and those thai don't usually
have an RS-232 serial interface. Either type of inter-
face works fine with the Amiga, employing exactly the
same cable as that used for an IBM.

Printing text is easy with any kind of printer. The
default Generic printer driver that conies installed on
the Workbench works fine, as long as you print only
letters, numbers, and punctuation marks. Complica-
tions arise when you need to access special functions
such as underlining, bold print, alternate type sizes
(12, 15, or 17 characters per inch), foreign language
characters, letter-quality mode, colored text, or
bitmapped-graphics printing. All printers require
special instructions to perform any of these functions, *~

By

Sheldon Leemon

ILLUSTRATED IVY SEYMOUR C.EIVYAST

AmigaWorld 39

I' K I \ T V, K

I) K [ V E R S

and, unfortunately, not all printers use ihe same in-
structions for each function.

Printer Preferences

The most common method for handling this problem
on the Amiga is through the Workbench printer dri-
vers. It you need to access special features like graph-
ics printing, you install a printer driver that contains
instructions for all of the special functions available on
a particular printer. Once you've installed the driver,
any applications program thai prints can tell the dri-
ver to "start underlining," for example, and that dri-
ver will send the proper command on to the printer.
The printer drivers started out in the DEVSrPritu-
ers directory of the Workbench disk, but were moved

If you're really looking for ultra high-quality printer output, you can even find Amiga
support— via a KarmaSoft printer driver — for very high-end dye-sublimation printers
like the Sony UP-D7000, output from which is pictured above-

to the Extras disk in Workbench 1.3, and to the Stor-
age disk in Workbench 2.1. In order to use a printer
driver, it must first be copied to the DEVS: Printers di-
rectory of your Workbench disk. If you don't know
how to copy the file yourself, you can click on the In-
stallPrinter icon in the Utilities drawer of Workbench
1.3, or use the Workbench Install program for Work-
bench 2.0 and higher. Once the driver is in the prop-
er director) - , you must activate it by running the Pref-
erences program (Workbench 1.3) or the Printer
Preferences editor (Workbench 2.0 and up), and then
selecting the driver from the list.

While Commodore includes a fair number of print-
er drivers with the system software, there are many
printers for which no driver is supplied. What do you
do if your printer isn't on the list? You must find the
closest match. Although printers tend to have their
own unique characteristics, most also are compatible
with one of three common standards. Dot-matrix
printers are usually able to accept the command codes
used by Epson printers, for instance. Your owner's
manual will tell you if you need to do anything special,
such as setting a switch, in order to enable this mode.

For a nine-pin printer, you should select the EpsonX
driver, which uses the codes for the nine-pin Epson I.X
series of printers. If you have a 24-pin printer, you
should use the EpsonQ driver, which uses (he codes lor
the 24-pin Epson LQ series.

Most laser printers are compatible with the com-
mand codes used by the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet
printers, with Adobe's PostScript page-description lan-
guage, or with both. For HP-compatible printers, you
should use the I IP LaserJet driver, while for the Post-
Script printers, there is a new PostScript driver in
Workbench 2.1 and above.

II<m can you tell if a printing problem is related to
the driver that you have selected? If plain text prints
fine (other than ihe occasional odd character at the top
of the page), bin graphics come out gar-
bled or print as text characters, your
primer driver is the likely culprit. If vou
get no output at all when you try to
print, however, the hardware connec-
tion is the more probable cause. Check
your cable connections, and try copying
a text file directly to the parallel device
(using a Shell command like ''Copv
s:startup-sequencc par:"). Since this pro-
cedure bypasses the system of printer
drivers completely, you will know that
the driver is not ihe problem if you don'l
get any output.

Designated Drivers

The Commodore-supplied drivers
should allow you to do basic text and
graphics printing with just about any
primer, bin they may not provide the
full range of features or the highest print
quality of which a particular printer is
capable. A number of third-party man-
ufacturers, however, have stepped in to
fill ibis gap with enhanced printer dri-
vers. (For information on how to contact de-
velopers of products mentioned in this article,
consult the "Maratfacturers'/Distributors' Ad-
dresses" list located on p. 94.)

Creative Focus, for example, is well known for its en-
hanced drivers for the DeskJet line of Ilewlct-Packard
printers. Their current driver, the Super DJC2 (S50),
handles the full line of these popular ink-jet printers,
including the latest color models such as the .t50C. (A
separate driver for the 600-dpi LaserJet 4 line is also
in (he works.) Not only does the Super DJC2 driver pro-
vide superior resolution and color fidelity, but it also
provides access to special features, such as variable ink
control to avoid excess saturation. The special features
are handled through the normal Preferences controls.
For example, you can select different resident fonts by
varying the Preferences settings for prim size and qual-
ity. While ibis scheme maximizes compatibility, It is a
bit cumbersome to remember just which of the normal
Preferences controls handle the extended functions.

Wolf Faust's Studio Printer software (S99.95, mar-
keted here in the US by Macro Systems) comes com-
plete with enhanced drivers for a wide range of print-
ers. These include (he DeskJet line, all IIP LaserJets
(including ihe 600-dpi LaserJet 4), and Epson-com-
patible printers from manufacturers HkeSeikoska, Ep-

40 September 1993

P R I N I i; K

DRIVERS

son, Oki, Panasonic, Star, Citizen, and Brother. These
drivers are able to print images directly from disk,
without using a lot of memory, in 24-bii color or eight-
bit gray. The Studio drivers give yon even more con-
trol over lite printers special features than the Creative
Focus drivers. In order to do so, Wolf supplies a 2.0-
style Preferences editor for the new drivers (Work-
bench 1.3 users are relegated to using obscure Shell
commands). These programs allow you to set various
graphics emulation and optimization modes, tab stops,
paper size and margins, the size of graphic images, text
color, typeface, and a whole array of color adjustments.
The drivers allow you to use a wide array of dither pat-
terns, ()]• even to create vour own custom dither pat-
terns. There is even a high-speed LaserJet driver for
Sofi-l.dgik's PageStream publishing program.

Amiga owners in search of "perfect" output will be
glad to hear that Amiga drivers are available for sev-
eral extremely high-end dye-sublimation printers,
which produce nearly photographic-quality color re-
suits. ASDG markets the Kodak SV65 10 Driver (S250)
for use with Kodak's SV6510 printer, which produces
4x5-inch color prints. ASDG's product is an add-on
module for its Art Department Professional program.
not a Workbench-Style driver. A Workbench driver
would not be appropriate lor such a printer, however,
since it is designed only for graphics printing. Al-
though ASDG reports that the Kodak printer has been
replaced by a newer model, the company believes that
the driver will work with that primer as well. Also. Kar-
maSofi provides support for Sony's S8000 UP-D7000
dye-sublimation primer with QuickPrint (S500).

P. veil il you can't find a commercial driver for your
primer, von may be able to lind a non-commercial one.
For example, the Studio software evolved from Wolf
Faust's freely distributable drivers for Canon printers.
The Canon Studio, which has all of the features of the
Studio software for HP- and Epson-compatible print-
ers, is still non-commercial. In Europe, it can be ob-
tained directly from Canon, while in the US il can be
found in the Fred Fish collection (#738) and on bul-
letin boards and information services, or obtained di-
rectly from Macro Systems for approximately S15 for
shipping and handling.

Many other primer drivers are available on the Fish
disks and bulletin boards, There are drivers for new-
er printers, like the HP LaserJet 4, the Epson LQ-860,
and the Fujitsu DL24C. You can also lind drivers for
older printers, such as the C-Itoh Prowriter, IBM
Prowriter, Panasonic KXP-lOxx, Star SR-10 and SG-
10. Gemini I OX, and NX-1000 Rainbow.

Beyond Preferences

Although most Amiga applications use the standard
svstem of printer drivers, some also include propri-
etary drivers that work only with thai particular pro-
gram. Such drivers provide the program greater con-
trol over the primer's specialized features than (he
generic Amiga drivers.

The first two Amiga programs to use this approach
were word processors, WordPerfect {WordPerfect
Corp.) and KindWords (The Disc Co.). Specialized dri-
vers allowed Word Perfect to lake advantage of built-
in text fonts and KindWords to print its own high-
quality text fonts along with graphics. .Although you
still may find copies of these programs around some-

where, they haven't been updated in quite some time,
so their drivers don't include support for most of the
current printers.

Currently, two page-layout applications use their
own printer drivers: Soft-Logik's PageStream and Rad-
ical Eye Software's version of TeX. The former in-
cludes drivers for a wide variety of the most popular
printers, including new printers such as the DeskJet
550C and HP LaserJet 4. PageStream, however, does
not require you to use its proprietary drivers. You can
always choose to use the Preferences driver instead.
And, as mentioned above, Wolf Faust's Studio Printer
and Canon Studio even include an optimized
PageStream driver for use with certain printers.

With TeX you are dealing with something more like
a page-layout language than a WYSIWYG word proces-
sor, but it is extremely powerful once you get over its
somewhat daunting
learning curve. Radical
Eye's TeX supports the
usual range of Post-
Script. IIP Laser (up to
GOO dpi), and Epson-
compatible dot-matrix
printers, as well as ink-
jet printers like the
DeskJet and Bubblejet
series. It doesn't offer
much color support,
however, for printers
like the DeskJet 550C.
As a backup, the pro-
gram also allows you to
use the normal Amiga
Preferences driver, or to
create an IFF bitmap of
each page — which can
then be printed like any
other picture file.

You find a somewhat
different lake on this theme with INOVAtronic's Tur-
boPrint (SI 29.95), which is not really an application
with its own custom drivers. Instead, it is designed to
replace the normal system of Preferences drivers.
When your run TurboPrint, it takes over all priming
functions. The program comes complete with its own
Preferences editor, which allows you to control all of
the normal .Amiga Preferences settings, as well as a
host of new features. These include line-gap correc-
tion (to eliminate overlap of graphics stripes, or band-
ing) and several custom graphics print modes and
dither patterns. The latest version also allows you to
select from among the printer's resident fonts, as well
as to choose text color. The program has drivers for
selected printers manufactured by Oki, Panasonic,
Citizen, Brother, NEC, Canon, Facit, HP, Seikosha,
Star, Siemens, and Epson. It does not yet include dri-
vers for some of the newer printers such as the IIP
550C or LaserJet 4.

If better graphics prints are what you're really alter,
you may want to try specialized graphics-printing soft-
ware, instead or trying to find a better printer driver.
ASDG's TruePrint/24 (S90), for example, utilizes the
normal Amiga primer drivers, but employs its own
method of telling ihe printer what to print. The result,
according to ASDG, is that you can get effective color i

"Although printers
tend to have their

own unique

characteristics,

most also are

compatible with

one of three

common standards/

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P K 1 \ T E R

DRIVERS

resolutions of 256 gray shades, and more than 16 mil-
lion colors. Other features of the program include the
ability to load and print 24-bit images and to print
from disk (for pictures that are too large to (it in mem-
ory), global color correction, and a number of custom
dither patterns. Flexible sizing options allow you to
scale your print from postage-stamp to poster size.

TruePrint/24 is actually a stand-alone version of the
Prcfprinter saver in AD Pro. ADPro owners, however,
may be interested in purchasing Glass Canvas's Col-
or-Correction operator ($39.05), which allows you to
process 24-bit images so that the printed colors more
closely match those on the screen.

The Studio Printer/Canon Studio software is quite
similar in terms of features to I YuePrint/24, though the
Studio program does not allow vou to change the ori-
entation of the picture for priming.

Font Control

One of the biggest drawbacks to the Amiga Preferences
printer drivers is weak support for built-in primer fonts.
The Super I3JC2, Studio Printer, and Cannon Studio
drivers all have support for selecting various internal
printer fonts, as does TurboPrint/24. Creative Focus
also offers a program called Dj Helper (S50), which
provides an on-screen control panel from which you
can easily change any of the printer settings, including
font selection. It also allows you to easily download fonts
to the printer's RAM cartridge. Unfortunately, DJ

Helper has not yet been updated to work with the Su-
per DJC2 driver, which means you must switch back to
the Preferences driver when using it Tor tex! control.

Also, you may be able to find shareware or public-
domain programs that allow you to change settings
such as text font without using the printer's front
panel. HooverSoft's Print 1.5A program, for example,
provides a simple front panel for a NEC printer, but
also can be configured with control codes for other
printers. Kelly Petlig's GSXSet program (available on
GEme, .Amiga File #12405) performs much the same
function for Citizen GSX dot-matrix printers.

As you can see, vou needn't look for an Amiga-com-
patible printer for your Amiga. As long as a printer will
work with one of the three software-emulation stan-
dards (Epson, HP Laser, or PostScript), it should do a
satisfactory job using the printer drivers that come with
Workbench. If more precise control or better print
quality is needed, there are a number of third-party
products that will give you enhanced printing capa-
bilities with a wide variety of popular printers. If you
can see it one the screen, vou should be able to get it
on paper. And given the Amiga's reputation when it
comes to graphics, that's saying quite a lot. ■

Sheldon Leemon, consultant, instructor, author of two books
and many magazine articles, is now Forum Manager for the
Amiga area on the National Videotex Network.

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HEN YOU'RE
READY to input
music with your com-
puter software, you
have two options:
real-time and step-
time recording. Real time means
playing at normal speed and us-
ing the computer as a tape
recorder. Step lime means enter-
big one note at a time via a MIDI
instrument, mouse, or computer keyboard, but without any
tempo, speed, or beat. Music that you enter in real time,
using a MIDI instrument, can sound quite different from
the same music entered in step time using any other means.
Recording in real lime is best because ii takes less lime,
is less complicated, and more enjoyable. It also sounds
more lifelike when played back. IF you're not yet good
enough to play at the proper speed, just slow the se-
quencer down to a speed at which you can play. This puis

everything in context and gives you a natural sound when
you play it back at proper speed. If you make some mis-
takes, don't worry — you can always edit them,

Slep-time recording will also allow the computer to be
your instrument, even your band. Bui it takes longer, is a
little more complicated, and requires more knowledge of
music theory. Most of the newer sequencers for the Ami-
ga, especially those with printing capabilities, have a
graphical interface that uses something similar to normal

BY RAYMOND MLYNCZAK. D.M.A.

ILLUSTRATED BY 1RI.I) LYNCH

AmigdWorld 43

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notation. Step-time note entry can be more compli-
cated if you have to enter notes into a data stream, be-
cause you'll be using alphanumcrics rather than the
music symbols that musicians are accustomed to. It's
actually best to be able to use the strengths of both
step-time approaches.

Attaining Velocity

One reason real-time recording is more lifelike is because
the velocity or loudness changes with each note played.
If you examined the data stream of a good musician
playing in real time, you would sec that every note had
a different velocity. The range of velocities might be rel-
atively narrow, but each note would be a little different.

The problem with step-time recording is that all ve-
locities are the same unless you vary [hem. If vou vary
them as you enter notes, besides making the process
much slower, you'll be guessing. Unless you're experi-
enced at editing, the results will likely sound bad. An
i .imci and better wav is to edit velocity using the mouse
in real time; many of the better sequencers allow this.
Consult the manual on how to set it up and always use
a copy of the original in case you need to start over and
can't undo your work.

As we discussed last month, the total velocity range
is from (silence) to 1 27 (maximum). Average playing
usually lies between 40 and 80, so if vou enter notes in
step time, you should set the velocity at about 60 (or
some constant value) for all. After you have entered all
the notes for the track or section, set up the sequencer
to convert mouse movement into velocity changes. Ptit
the sequencer in real-time playback mode while it
records your mouse movements. As you move the
mouse one way and then the other, vou will hear the
music gel louder and softer. Slow mouse movements
will give crescendo ancl diminuendo (gradually loud-
er or softer). Fast or erratic movements, following the
melodic line, will give the same results in the velocity
or loudness.

You'll have to experiment and gel the feel of how the
music reacts to the mouse. When you gel something
that sounds pretty good, you can always go back and
step edit if you need to "tweak" a few notes, ft's always
a good idea to check the data stream anyway, just to
see how the values were effected.

While you can record music in real time or step time,
editing is usually done in step time (some editing is best
done in real time, though), and playback is always done
in real time. Sequencers bv The Blue Ribbon Sound-
Works and Dr. Ts do it all.' Deluxe Music (S129.95) by
Electronic Arts is better suited to Step- lime recording.

Rock 'n' Control

Last month we looked at the differences between SMUS
and MIDI files and briefly discussed MIDI's use of con-
trollers, which constitutes a major distinction. A con-
troller is aptly named: It controls some aspect of the
sound. SMUS can perform some controller lunctions by
changing the way the music is noiated, but most of these
functions are either impractical or impossible. Even in
MIDI there are controller numbers thai haven't yet been
defined, and most synthesizers respond to only about
live or ten of the possibilities. Even though only a hand-
ful are in common usage, these are very important and,
in some cases, indispensable.

Let's examine the more common controllers. We'll

find out what they do, and at the same time learn how
some can be imitated in SML'S.

Of the 121 possible controllers, there are two types:
1 1 nit iiiiKins controllers and continuous switches. Con-
troller numbers through li:( arc continuous con-
trollers with a valid range of to 127, meaning that
there are 128 increments possible (with some excep-
tions). Controller numbers 64 through 121 are switch-
es with limited ranges, usually (I for off and 127 for on.

Probably the most frequently used controller is num-
ber 7, i he master volume. A continuous controller, it has
a range of to 127, meaning that there are 128 levels
from silence to full volume. Synthesizers default to 127,
or full volume. If you are using only one svnth, you
should use this controller to vary the overall volume to
achieve loud or soft passages of music automatically
under computer control. Must svnths can recognize
this controller and some can transmit it. If your svnth
can transmit it, vou can use a volume pedal or whatev-
er other device the syiitb utilizes to record volume
changes along with die usual note information on your
sequencer. You must be very careful, though, Huge
data files can result, mostly with controller 7 informa-
tion. A better way to use this controller is to edit it into
the data stream manually at the points where the
changes are needed. Manv sequencers can automate
the process by playing back your recorded track while
you record a new controller track using the mouse to
make necessary changes in real l ime. The two tracks can
then be played back together or combined into one.
Check your sequencer manual.

Automated Mix

The practical use ol controller 7 is in a multisynthesizer
environment. When you use two or more synthesizers
or a multitimbral module (synth capable of playing six
or eight different sounds at once), there is a need to
control the volume of each to obtain a good "mix."
Lead parts need to be louder than the others; back-
ground parts should be softer. Some synthesizer patch-
es (sound programs) generate higher volumes than
Others, Sound samples (played via Amiga or a dedi-
cated sampler) are always recorded at highest practi-
cal levels to achieve a good signal-lo-noise ratio. All
these variables come into play when you use multiple
sound generators simultaneously.

Let's say channel 1 has the lead and channel 2 is a
background. I might set controller 7 to 127 on chan-
nel I , and set it to 95 on channel 2. A little later, when
the lead switches to channel 2 and the background to
channel 1. I can either change the volume settings
manually on the mixer or reverse the controller 7 sel-
lings on each track. The latter option is better if I want
lo play along with these prerecorded tracks; controller
7 will allow me to keep my hands free.

If I decide to add a bass line on channel 3, I'll set
controller 7 to a value of 85 there. That will sound
good until measure 17, where I switch to a different
patch that is too soft. Since the Amiga will send the
patch change, I'll have it send a controller 7 change
also — say from 85 to 105. Now the Amiga can play
three tracks with patch and volume changes while I
play a fourth part at the same time,

As you can see, the more complex your music gets,
the more you'll have to rely on I he appropriate con-
trollers to achieve the sound vou want. The Arnica can

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AMIGA — PART

2

play the parts of numerous musicians and it needs to
know more than just the right notes; it needs to know
how they should be played. You're the conductor.

One important point to remember when using any
controller or other non-note data is that any changes
thai you make during the progress of a composition
must be initialized at the very beginning. Whatever
changes you have made along the way won't automat-
ically change back if you stop and then start from the
beginning again. For example, if the volume is full at
the beginning (most synths power up this way) and
later you change controller 7 to a value of 60, if you
stop and restart the sequence again, it will play at half
volume all the way through unless you've inserted a
controller 7=127 at the beginning. Similar things hap-
pen any time you skip from one point to another. The
correct note data will play, but the old settings for con-
troller, patches, pitch bends, and so on will be used un-
til they are updated. This can lead to some very inter-
esting developments, however. Sometimes the
"mistakes" sound better.

Balance and Hold

Controller 8, the balance control, is primarily used on
multitimbral synths and has no SMUS equivalent. A
multitimbral synth can play two or more different
sounds on as many channels at the same time. These
synths are becoming more common and are very
handy and cost-effective. Because stereo is the norm,
you want to have certain sounds coming from the left,
some from the center, and others from the right. To
do this, simply insert a controller 8 command with the
appropriate value in each track or channel being
played: Value 0=full left, 127 = Iiill right, and 64=cen-
ter, or left and right together. You can put the bass and
drums in the center, the lead on the right, and the
background on the left and then switch them around
at any point in time. Combine this with automated vol-
ume control (controller 7) on each channel, and your
.Amiga can be a star performer.

Another important controller has significant effects
on music that is converted to SMUS format. This is con-
troller 64, sustinuto (a.k.a., hold, sustain, clamper). .Al-
though today all instruments can be interfaced to the
computer and, in lact, music can be composed directly
on the computer without an instrument, the MIDI spec
was developed with keyboards in mind. In lact, the func-
tions of this controller are found on the pedals of a pi-
ano. The damper is the right-foot pedal on both two- and
three-pedal pianos. When you don't use it, a piano re-
acts like any other instrument — you press a key, the tone
sounds; you release the key, the tone stops. But, with the
damper pedal pressed down, you'll find that when you
release the key, the tone doesn't stop. Instead, it contin-
ues, although fading, until you release the pedal.

The damper in MIDI is an on-off switch pressed
with the foot. When you press it, any note you play will
sound and sustain until you release the pedal. It will
also gradually decrease in volume if you have pro-
grammed the synth patch to do so. If not (as with a
brass sound), it will continue until you release the
damper or until it is forced to stop (more about this
later). When you press the pedal, your MIDI sequencer
would record an event: controller 64 "on." You can also
edit this into the data stream. The important thing to
remember is that after this command, all notes played

or entered by any means will sustain until you issue a
controller 64 "off" command either by releasing the
pedal or manually editing the data stream, replacing

1 27 ("on") with ("oil").

First In, First Out

There is a limiting factor in using sustinuto on a synth
or sound sampler and this exposes a major difference
between digital instruments and analog ones such as
the piano. A piano has 88 keys that sound 88 individ-
ual tone generators. Each key sounds a string (some-
times two or three strings) tuned to produce one pitch
only. .All of these tone generators could be sounded at
one lime. A digital instrument has a more limited num-
ber of tone generators (usually 6 to 32). On multitim-
bral synths you allocate a certain number of tone gen-
erators to different channels. If your synth has only six
generators, or if you've allocated only six generators
to the particular channel you're using, only six notes
can be sustained. If you play a seventh note while the
original six are sustained, one of the originals must
stop to play the new note. If you play yet another note,
one of the remaining five original notes will have to
stop to play it.

The way the synth decides which notes to cut off so
a generator can play a new note is simple: The notes
sounded first are cut off to accommodate new notes. If
seven or more notes were played precisely at the same
time, only the highest six (or whatever number of gen-
erators were available on that channel) would sound.
Some synths use a process called dynamic allocation to
remedy this. If tone generators are available, they are
used to play on an "as needed" basis.

Besides sounds stopping before their time, an of-
fensive "click" can occur as a note abruptly stops. The
reason for the "click" has to do with the synthesizer
program. The solution is to use more tone generators
(you can never have enough) or reduce the number of
notes to be sustained.

If your MIDI sequence is destined to become SMUS,
it is best not to use the sustain pedal at all. The process
of converting MIDI sequences to SMUS strips away
controller information. That means if you hold a note
for half of a beat and use the sustain pedal (controller
64) to hold it for four beats, the MIDI sequence*]' will
play ii back the same way. II you convert ibis loSMUS,
the note will sound only for half of a beat (no controller
64) and you will have to edit the note to the proper
length. If you've done this often or have multiple notes
sustained simultaneously, you'll have to locate each oc-
currence and make the correction. This can become a
complex and time-consuming task.

Wlien using the computer for music, graphics, and
so on, it is best to envision the outcome of the whole
and work backwards to con struct the parts needed
to achieve it. Otherwise, extensive modifications or
unusable parts may result in frustration rather
than fun. .And fun, after all, is one of the benefits
to using your Amiga. ■

Dr. Raymond Mlynczak lias a 35-year music
background involving performance and
teaching. He's also worked with the Amiga
for seven years and is currently president of
Electric Theatre.

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A continuing series

of tips, techniques,
and tricks for
creating more

imaginative Amiga
graphics.

By Joel Hagen

Painting With
Animbrushes

MOST PEOPLE THINK of anim-
brushes as useful tools in animation
production. It can be a real labor saver,
for example, to move a looping (en-
frame animbrush of a walking charac-
ter through a hundred-frame anima-
tion. Less widely explored are the
powerful possibilities animbrushes
offer as pure painting tools. This col-
umn will suggest a number of experi-
ments you can try in which animbrush-
es help create organic brush strokes,
controlled distortions, complex tex-
tures, shading effects, and realistic
landscapes.

The fundamentals of making anim-
brushes are simple. Under Frames in
DeluxePaint's (Electronic Arts) Anim
menu, set up your desired number of
frames for an animation. Paint a pro-
gression of images on the screen across
those frames. Select Animbrush Pick
Up from the Anim menu and drag a
box around the space occupied by the
elements of the frames. The area un-
der that box will be picked up frame by
frame and saved as an Animbrush.
That brush can be reloaded at any time
and used in new projects.

For Your "Blue" Period...

For your first experiment in creating
animbrushes to be used as painting
tools, you might try making an organic
line tool. Set up 20 or more frames
and airbrush a spot on each frame in
the same location. Start with a very
small spot and make each successive
spot progressively larger toward the
middle of the animation, then smaller
and smaller again to the end. The row
of round blue brushes in the upper-
right section of the accompanying
illustration show the idea. Pick up this
sequence as an animbrush and paint
with it using the clotted-line tool. The
stroke gets thicker and thinner as you
paint. The illustration also shows a few
quick strokes from a blue animbrush

made in this fashion. Painting with
such a brush can open unique possibili-
ties in abstract compositions or simula-
tions of chalk and charcoal for illus-
tration.

It may take a lot of experimentation
to define animbrushes with just the
character you find appealing, but it can
be well worth your while when you
experience the results. Experiment
with fine-tuning your brush while it is
in the animation stage. Retouch frames
with new colors or adjust sizes, then
pick up the animbrush again and try it
on the spare screen until you are
pleased with the results. For illustra-
tion, cross hatching is one of my
favorite uses for animbrushes. A num-
ber of frames can contain single-pixel
lines at a variety of angles. Strokes
made with this animbrush cause auto-
matic cross hatching as you move the
brush back and forth. The more you
go over an area, the denser the lines
and the darker the subjective value in
that region.

Complex textures are a snap to
create with animbrushes. I he illustra-
tion (upper right) shows an easy exam-
ple of letters of the alphabet used as a
background. Select a font and tvpe the
entire alphabet on the screen. If you
like, pick this up as a brush and use the
o key in DPaint to outline all the letters
at once. Set Frames to 26 and cut each
successive letter as a brush, stamping ii
down at the same screen location
frame by frame. Pick up the alphabet
sequence as an animbrush and paint
with it. For a variation, select the air-
brush tool with the right mouse button
and enlarge the spray pattern. Use the
airbrush tool for a looser dispersal of
the letters than you get with the dotted-
line tool. To open up the dispersal of
brush elements even more, include
alternate empty eels in the animbrush
as you create it. The nice thing about
using this technique for textures and
backgrounds is that vou have real
control over the density of the pattern
as you paint. Try the same idea with

54 September 1993

Using DPaint animbrushes not for animation,
but as painting tools, you can produce an interesting variety

of effective results.

words, symbols, logos, shapes, and so
On. The same animbrush can suit the
color scheme of any new project by
simply changing the palette.

Little Strokes of Genius

In landscape painting, you can bring
organic variety to areas of rocks, trees,
flowers, and grasses by using the anim-
brush painting concept. Make an ani-
mbrush in which each eel contains a
different tree or shrub. Painting with
this brush lays down a dense pattern of
vegetation containing a realistic variety
of forms and details. You could paint
the entire scene without (his technique,
but the strength here is in the ability to
quickly experiment with strokes of
forest or grassland — using Undo until
you like the look. Add details later to
complete the detail of the region.

The illustration shows a quick layer-
ing of stones made with a lew strokes
of one of my animbrushes. I also used
a handy trick here to make the stones
smaller and smaller in the distance. To
make your animbrush smaller, press
the Enter key to enter Perspective
mode. Holding down Ctrl, move your
mouse forward and back to change the
size. Remain in Perspective mode and
paint with the dotted-line tool. Paint
the smallest, most distant areas first.
resize the animbrush, and layer the
nearer areas over the more distant.
Use the same idea witli trees, clouds,
schools offish, herds of cattle, and so
on. Quick strokes and the Undo key
allow infinite experimentation instead
of the drudgery of repainting.

You can also use animbrushes to
paint controlled distortions as shown
by the two (aces on the left in the illus-
tration. In the Move requester, I
moved the original portrait (top) a V
distance equal to its own height over a
number of frames equal lo that same
value. In this case, the face was 200
pixels high so I moved il a Y distance
of 200 over a 200-frame animation.
From this animation, I picked up an
animbrush thai was one-pixel high and
the width of the portrait. This 200-cel
animbrush thus contained the entire

portrait as a sweep of single-pixel lines.

Painting with this brush produced
the distorted face (bottom) in a single
stroke. By varying your stroke, endless
control over the image is possible,
including breaking it up by scrubbing
quicklv, or flipping it by stroking in a
different direction. For some really
involved experiments, use this anim-
brush in the Move requester with a
variety of Distance and Angle settings.
This can cause the face to twist in on
itself as it rotates through dimensional
space. Use the results directly or as a
tool for exploring your perception of
form and space. Picasso, I think, would
have loved this tool. ■

Joel Hugen's credits include work in art,
astronomy, science fiction , and software
development. Write to him at 10512
Sawyer, Oakdale, CA 95361. Please
include a stamped, self-addressed envelope
for a reply.

The Illustration above shows various
techniques you can experiment
with using animbrushes as
painting tools.

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Amiga's fastest animation players are
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main, and support for Amiga (PEG,
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Alignment and Calibration

Utilities

If your monitor and encoder are not
adjusted properly, what shows up on
video may be dramatically dillcrcnt
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VTOT

shareware by Mike Berro
This older program works fine on my
AGA machine and with my GYP G-
Force 030/50 MHz SGSI card, but it is

incompatible with some hard-drive
controllers (if nothing happens when
you try running it, you'll know).

VTOT opens a small window that
offers a range of options, all available
via hot-keys. From any program you
can summon a black screen, IFF (al-
though not AGA) picture, full-field and
SMPTE color bars, gray-scale bars, and

line patterns lor monitor alignment. It
also offers such options for your cur-
rent screen as adjustable-speed fade-to-
black and fade-from-black, negative
screen colors, horizontal and vertical
screen flip, and an interlace toggle.

Bars 'N Tone
shareware by Mike Berro
Another older program, this is a great
utility if you just need color bars and
the proper 1 KHz lone that typically
accompanies them. It's important to
put color bars at the beginning of your
video if you plan to have it edited or
duplicated. Even if your encoder alters
the colors a bit, an engineer can use
the bars to adjust equipment so that
your final version looks right. You can
also use this program to calibrate your
encoder.

VPG

shareware by Mike Berro
Besides helping to center your image
on the monitor, VPG (Video Pattern
Generator) can put up a crosshair,
draw a frame around the edge of the
screen, and display dots for setting
convergence control. Furthermore, it
provides horizontal and vertical lines
for adjusting pincushion, has an ad-
justable rectangle, and allows you to
display these options in your choice of
five different colors.

Screen Move

copyrighted freeware by Anson Mah
Video-transfer problems, garbled

DGTV image displays, and other an-
noyances can result when your screen
position is misadjusted. VPG can show
you the problem, but ScreenMove can
help you fix it. Running ScreenMove
brings up a small window with a button
in the middle. By clicking on and drag-
ging the button, you can change de-
position of the display.

I've discovered a much better way to
use it, though. Using the Workbench
2,1 or 3.0 FKey commodity, assign
ScreenMo\e to a function key; then,
within any program or while a picture
is being displayed, press the function
key, use the cursor keys to reposition
the screen, and press Return when you
are done. The changes that result are
temporary; to make them permanent,
save using Prefs.

Time-Code Utilities

SMITE time code gives each video
frame a different number, allowing you
to address the exact frame you want
during editing. These programs sup-
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SMPTE Calculator

copyrighted freeware by Trimiga
Ever tried to figure out the proper
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utes, 30 seconds, and 12 frames to the
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InTime

copyrighted freeware by Gary Smith
Even if you don't have lime code, von
might want to dub pseudo time-code

numbers onto a reference tape. InTime
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Yon can place these numbers anywhere
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Animation Players

Flaying animations through Deluxe-
Paint is not bad. But if you need to
record several AN I Ms to tape during an
edit session, DPaint's relatively slow load
time is money out the window. The
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key press. ARexx command, or GPI
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do, here are the best available:

VTEK

copyrighted freeware by Thomas Krehbiel
This ANIM player also shows pictures
(including JPEG and GIF) and fully
supports all AGA screen modes. You
can set it to hold on the first frame, ancl
start with a kev press. \TEK not onlv
supports the unofficial but faster ANIM-
7 standard (speed is oldie utmost im-
portance when vim are p laving IX'TY-
fomiai and odier complex ANI.Ms), but
it can also convert AN IM-5 and ANIM-8
animations to ANIM-7 formal via an
included utility.

RTAP

copyrighted freeware by Sebastiano Vigna
RTAP is one of the fastest non-AGA
ANIM-5 players available. Because
RTAP lets you trigger animations via
hot-key, it is very useful for interactive
video transfers. Its ability to play se-
quences directly from the hard drive
not only eliminates load time, but also
lets vou [day animations larger than
available memory can hold. R'l'AP lets
you specify the number of times to
loop, and the relative playback speed.
To add animations to a video simply,

use Workbench's FKey program to
assign them to function keys, roll live
video, and hit the hot-keys for each
animation cue.

While Christer Sundin's BigAnim
program is faster and supports color
cycling, it plays ANIMs only in a con-
tinuous loop, making it useless for
video (though his upcoming 3.0 ver-
sion ma)' solve that and support AGA).

Superview

copyrighted freeware by David Grothe
Need to dump an ANIM to tape and
bold on the last frame? Adding dupli-
cate frames to produce the right length
of time can be a pain, bin with Super-
view, you can use command-line op-
tions to do it. You can show die first
frame of the ANIM for a set amount of
time, for example, then play the
ANIM, and finally hold on the last
frame. To hold on a frame, save it as a
separate picture, then have Superview
display it before or after the ANIM.
The transition from the end of the
ANIM to the last frame is seamless,
thanks to Superview's intelligent load-
ing. Superview is an oldie, but I have-
not found another ANIM player thai
can do this. And unlike VTEK and
RTAP, it supports color cycling.

Image Manipulators

Much of what videographers use the
Amiga lor involves manipulating
graphics. We often need to scale and
crop scanned images into video aspect
ratios, and deal with different file for-
mats. These programs can help get
your images into shape:

Digital Illusion
shareware by Tonny Espeset

This is one of the besl shareware pro-
grams I've seen, and it's now only in
alpha version. It is a full 24-bit image-
processing program with an AD Pro-
like interlace and such basic features as
visual cropping, color-to-gray, horizon-
lal and vertical flipping, scaling, and
the ability to adjust the palette, resolu-
tion, and number of colors. You can
add an adjustable starburst to anv part
of the image, and save images in 24-bit
or any other resolution.

What sets Digital Illusion apart are
its many unusual processing features
and the fact that they can all be used
with a highlv intuitive animation capa-
bility. Each option has adjustable param-
eters; if vou specify' different settings
For the first and lasi frame and click on
die Go button, the program will create
the in-between images. You can even
combine several image-processing
functions into a single animation. You

can preview a sequence from the bard
drive at about one frame per second
from within the program. Load them
into DelttxePaint IV, and vou have a
finished animation.

I'be options include Mosaic, Motion
Blur, Spiral, Emboss, Brightness, RGB
Filters, Rotate. Starburst, ancl several
horizontal and vertical quakes and
waves. These are great for doing video-
titling effects. Using the Mosiac option,
for example, you can easily create an
animated pixelization of a word; using
Rotate you can make it spin; and so on.

While not as powerful as ASDG's
ADPro, Digital Illusion has some fea-
ture-, all iis own; I wish ADPro had
such easy-to-use animation capabilities!

Rend-24

shareware by Thomas Krehbiel
You may not need Rend-24 if you have
GVP's ImageFN by the same author.
This is a great stand-alone utility for
batch processing images into an ani-
mation. The latest version supports all
Amiga formats, including AGA, arid
can load GIF and JPEG images. It can
even wait in the background for images
(such as LightWave-rendered frames)
to generate, then grab them and acid
them to an ANIM in any resolution,
including HAM -8 and DCTY. Because
single-frame recording requires (and
wears the heck out of) expensive equip-
ment, dumping ANI.Ms to tape directly
is much easier. It's faster, too. It works
even better if you convert the ANIM to
ANIM-7 and use Tom's VTEK player.

Besides programs, there are many
other useful freeware files. You can
find abundant louts that work well for
video titling, for instance; there are
large Amiga loins, ColorFouts. and
scalable CG fouls lo meet almost any
need. There is also a wealth of dip art,
backgrounds, and 3-D objects,

I hough getting a hold of PD soft-
ware is not always easy, it is rewarding.
The things I've mentioned are avail-
able through the Fred Fish library, the
Amiga Video-Graphics library, com-
mercial distributors such as DevWare
and Premier Software, commercial
networks (see "On-line Scan," p. 9),
ancl noncommercial BBS systems. One
of the best ways. to find them, though,
is through your local user group. ■

Geoffrey Williams is Executive Producer of
Creative Business Presentations. He writes a
regular column on using public-domain
software with NewTek's Video Toaster for
Yideo Toaster User magazine. Write to
him at 1833 Verdugo Vista Dr., Glendale,
CA 91208.

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nar eclipse, and the July, 1991 total
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Starry Skies

With thousands of celestial bodies rep-
resented in Distant Suns' database and
more available on additional disks, this
award-winning educational program is a
potent tool for stimulating interest in
astronomy, To further its potential, Dis-
tant Suns provides additional informa-
tion on each comet, star, asteroid, plan-
et and galaxy in its simulated sky. Just
click on an object to view a number of
statistics and, in some cases, a descrip-
tion of it. Another click displays the
names of celestial objects and yet an-
other outlines the most famous constel-
lations. Whether you're a serious sky-
watcher or a parent introducing the kids
to the Big Dipper, Distant Suns can be
a lively and fun-filled addition to your
efforts.

The features of the program are too
numerous to detail. Instead, I'll concen-
trate on the new additions in this version
1.2 upgrade. Distant Suns has organized
all time-related parameters in a Clock
Control screen to accelerate time-con-
suming events, such as watching the uni-
verse "rotate" in real time. Here vou can
set a variety of time scales, freeze the ac-
tion, update the time at regular inter-
vals or, in Fast mode, just rush through
heavenly movements as quickly as your
Amiga can calculate them.

When in Fast mode, a Tracking menu
lets you animate screen objects and in-
stinct them to leave their tracks behind
them in the form of dots or lines. Try this
out from a viewpoint outside the solar sys-
tem and you'll create a fascinating draw-
ing of the planets and their orbital paths.

Chart A Course

Only the most learned know the latitude
and longitude of their homes, so the En-
vironment menu now includes a data-
base of city- locations that you can click to
select an earthly point of view. You may
also add new locations to the database.
Then, in coordination with your Amiga's
properly set internal clock. Distant Suns
uses diese coordinates to generate an ac-
curate representation of the night sky
above you.

New features also include the ability
to search for stars by their Greek ID,
Heniy Diaper, or Smithsonian Astro-
physical Observatory catalog numbers;
to toggle between your current and pre-
vious points of view; and to examine a
Lunar-phase chart to see moon phases
throughout the year. In addition to

64 September 1993

R E V

E VI S

many new stars and oilier objects added
to the database, Smithwick has includ-
ed several new ARexx commands and
accelerated the rendering speed of the
program — although it still works best
with a 68020 or faster Amiga.

For those so inspired, when you're
creating a "llight path'" for a newly dis-
covered object or a celestial object of
your invention, you can now place it on
a parabolic orbit. Finally, a much im-
proved group of "What's Up" menus
gives vou a more thorough and accessi-
ble summary of what's going on over-
head tonight.

Listing these features indicates what a
complete, detailed resource Distant Suns
is. What it can't indicate is the magical
feeling of silting in a dark room with
your Amiga and actually experiencing
the twinkling stars, some bright and
some dim, the brilliant planets, and the
soothing glow of far-off galaxies. Or, bet-
ter yet, save your night vision during fea-
ture selection by setting the screen dis-
play to red menus, and lug your Amiga
outdoors to compare the Distant Suns
screen with the real thing. Indeed, Dis-
tant Suns remains one of the true
treasures for the .Amiga.

— Bob Lindstrom

DejaVue

PreVue Technologies, $398

A2000/3000/4000.

External joystick-port connection.

Hard-drive installable software.

Not copy protected.

2.0/AGA compatible.

Accelerator compatible.

System requirements: NewTek

Video Toaster.
Installation: Easy.

Remote controller for
Newtek's Video Toaster.

DejaVue is a small box with 13 but-
tons that plugs into your joystick
port and gives you remote control over
your Video Toaster. The box, along with
the included software-control panel, has
two main functions. The first is to poll
the Video Toaster about its current sta-
tus and memorize I he settings, including
the selected transition, framestores, and
CG pages. The second is to let you assign
those settings to one of the ten num-

bered keys on the box so that you can re-
call them ai will.

Transparent by Design

DejaVue is easy to use and can be oper-
ated by those who never use anything
beyond the Toaster software. The way
DejaVue works is quite simple. When
you hold down the Learn button along
with any one of the ten keys, it gets the
settings information from the Toaster
using ARexx, and then saves those set-
tings as an ARexx script in a file on your
hard drive. You can have an unlimited
number of banks often settings, which
can be loaded from the DejaVue soft-
ware-control panel.

DejaVue is, in essence, an easy-to-use
ARexx script generator. It recalls die set-
liugs offline and lets you trigger the ef-
lect when ready. If you work in an edit-
ing environment where you frequently
use the same settings, this is quite handy.
It is also quick and easy to assign a new
setting to one of the keys.

When vou Store settings to a button,
DejaVue records program, preview, and
overlay bus-input settings, T-Bar posi-
tion, kev mode, key-clip level, wipe-tran-
sition number, framestore number, CG
page number and transition speed. It
can load only a single framestore and
single CG page per button, so you can-
licit load framestores into both with a sin-
gle key.

The box itself has a pass-through joy-
stick port. It is completely transparent,
and yon can plug a dongle, a source for
GPI pulses, or even another DejaVue
into it. You can have one DejaVue by (he
computer and another unit with a long
cable in a remote location, and both will
function properly. (You can connect a
DejaVue unit with a cable up to 15 feet
long.)

You can run the DejaVue control soft-
ware after the Toaster has been
launched by going back to the Work-
bench, or you can launch it first and have
it start the Toaster for you. You have
three basic options. The first turns off
the recall of program and preview bus
settings. You might want to disable this
in cases such as five shoots, when you
don't know which input will be selected
but you still want to recall graphics and
CG pages. The second option lets you
turn off framestore recall in cases where
you can't spare the few seconds it lakes
for a framestore to load. The final option
lets you turn offCG page recall.

Buttoned Down

You can also load and save banks often
settings from the software-control panel,
and add banks of settings created in any

of the script generators such as Toaster-
Vision. Unfortunately, the manual docs
not tell you where the buttons are stored.
While anyone with a director)' utility and
a good understanding of the concept of
nested drawers could figure out where
the button information is (DV/DV-
Tools/Buttons), the average Toaster user
might be baffled. The control panel
should let you load pre-existing ARexx
scripts from a standard file requester
and assign them to a button.

There is a button labeled "menu" on
the control box itself. This is convenient,
as it takes you immediately to the soft-
ware-control panel on (he Workbench
screen — an easier way to get to Work-
bench than the time-honored Clrl-Ctrl-
Alt-AIt key sequence. Clicking on the
"Go to Switcher" button returns you to
the Toaster.

The final button on the box is labeled
Transition, After loading settings, you
execute them with this button, which has
the same effect as hitting the spacebar.

The manual is designed for insertion
into your Video Toaster manual, and it
is adequate, if terse. According to tech-
nical support, which was helpful and
friendly, it will work with Toaster 3.0.
Preview Technologies is also planning
drivers for other products, which might
make DejaVue more flexible.

I can think of many situations where
this box would be handy, but the price
might deter potential users, even though
it has already been reduced by SI 00
from its initial release. It delivers on all
its promises, and does save some time,
but whether it's worth the investment de-
pends upon your working environment.
— Geoffrey Williams

HyperCache
Professional

Silicon Prairie Software, S49.95
All Amigas.
Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected.
1.3/2.0/3.0 compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 5I2K RAM.
Recommended system: 1MB RAM
or more.

RAM-based software disk.

Aside from ASDG's Face II and the
AmigaDOS Addbufiers command,
the Amiga has seen minimal develop-
ment of disk-cache software. Such caches
Continued on p. 68.

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accelerate the data-reading process on
storage devices such as hard disks.
C D-RO Ms, and floppy drives, ADD-
BUFFKRS, the simple AmigaDOS cache
command, places the most recently read
blocks from your disk into RAM, speed-
ing up subsequent readings of the
same data.

Silicon Prairie's HyperCache, on die
other hand, louts itself as an "N-way as-
sociative look-ahead cache system."
Roughly translated, this means that Hy-
perCache tries to anticipate which file
you will next access from your disk. In
turn, disk reads are faster than normal,
and even quicker than the initial loading
of a file.

Class in Session

HyperCache installs easily as a com-
mand-line program with no Intuition in-
terface. Given all the variables it can af-
fect, a Workbench interface would be a
nice touch. Unfortunately, none is in-
cluded; HyperCache is run strictly from
the Shell. The 16-page, Freshly rewrit-
ten manual does a good job of explain-
ing the program's operation, however,
even to devout CLI-phobcs.

The disk contains a mere 57K of data:
HyperCache, HyperCache030 (for accel-
erated machines), and a utility called
Summary, which gives an up-to-the-
minute status of the program's efficiency.

To get the most out of HyperCache,
you have to understand how it works.
For starters, it isn't a pool of RAM that
retains a huge chunk of your hard-disk
data. Rather, HyperCache creates a
number of small caches that store infor-
mation from various sections of your
storage device. You can specily the num-
ber of independent caches, their size,
and how much of your disk is read, or
"prefetched," before you put it to use.

The number of sets you create in Hy-
perCache' s configuration determines the
dumber of independent caches the pro-
gram uses. 'I~he more sets you create, the
better the odds that the data you require
is ready to load directly from RAM.
That's great if you regularly load lots of
small files, but what about big ones? Hy-
perCache's lines determine the size of
each cache.

Finally, the prefetch Hag determines
how much of the cache is filled by "read-
ing ahead" of what you've actually re-
quested: If you have a freshly defrag-
mented hard disk, a big prefetch works
nicely, reading smooth streams of con-
tiguous data. If, on the other hand, your
hard disk looks like the equivalent of

your kitchen junk drawer, you'll want to
minimize the prefetch, because the pro-
gram will waste valuable time scanning
the hard disk for data.

Running on RAM

As previously mentioned, HyperCache
speeds up disk access on most AmigaDOS
devices, including floppies, IDF" and SCSI
hard disks, CD-ROMs, and SyQuest dri-
ves. I discovered that it also works with
CrossDOS PC disks and Bridgeboard
Janus-type hard-disk files. You'll pay
handsomely in RAM, however, for all this
convenience. If you plan to use Hyper-
Cache to its full extent, bring along
plenty of memory. The manual recom-
mends allocating 64K or 1 28K for each
floppy drive, though it makes no such
suggestions for hard-disk caches. If you
use the program's default cache size of
51 2K, you'll devour a megabyte of RAM
just by caching a few storage devices. If
you choose a cache any smaller than 6-1 K,
you might as well just use ADDBUFFERS;
it works equally well.

How does HyperCache fare in the real
world? Quite simply, the slower your
hard disk, the more significant the im-
provement. Benchmarking software re-
vealed that my HyperCache-equippcd
A4000 produced a five-fold improve-
ment in disk-access speed, increasing
data retrieval from I M B to about 5M B a
second. While that sounds great, in ac-
tual practice the results are subtle. Hy-
perCache has no discernible effect on
some of the huge programs and data
files I tend to load, so it mainly speeds
up directory listings and small utilities.

Although the manual suggests in-
stalling HyperCache in the startup-se-
quence to speed up the booting process,
this shaves nary a second in loading lime
off my 28-second startup. A much more
noticeable speed improvement is appar-
ent with lloppy disks and slow A500 and
A1200 hard disks. Floppies, noted for
their sluggish access times, instantly dis-
play lengthy directories after they're ac-
cessed by I IyperCache.

So, is HyperCache for you? In my
opinion, if your hard disk accesses data
more slowly than 1MB per second and
you have the RAM to spare, I heartily
recommend it. Conversely, with fast
hard-drive-equipped systems, you may
only see a difference when using floppy
disks and CD-ROMs. Finally, if you are
already low on RAM, be forewarned that
this program places a large demand on
your system.

— Dave Johnson

Zeus 68040

Progressive Peripherals, S895 (28 MHz
with no RAM; S1195 (33MHz)
A2000.

Internal slot connection.
2.0/3.0 compatible software.
Installation: Easy, but follow

the instructions carefully.

68040 accelerator, SCSI-2 controller,
and RAM expander.

My daughter, a wise philosopher in her
own right, once told me she could
never have too many animals. Likewise, I
would say that Amiga 20(10 owners can
never have too much RAM or processing
speed for their old warhorses. Progres-
sive Peripherals apparently felt the same
way, for it created the Zeus, which is a
68040 accelerator, 64MB RAM expander,
and SCSI-2 hard-disk controller all rolled
into one hefty card.

The Mighty Zeus

As with many Amiga enthusiasts, a siz-
able cornei- of both my home office and
computing heart belongs to a workaday
A2000. Although sporadically enhanced
and accelerated over the past six years,
the A2000 still seems fmstraiingly slow
in comparison to newer computers — but
not wilh Zeus.

As 68040 accelerators go, Progressive's
Zeus 33-MHz model is not standard fare.
The Swiss Army knife of 68040s, it offers
both a SCSI-2 hard-drive controller and
up to 64MB of 32-bit RAM-expansion po-
tential. The board I received was nothing
if not complete; a 240MB hard card and
16MB of 1x8MB 60ns SIMMs filled the
ranks and RAM banks. RAM-wise, I could
further expand the big card to 64MB of
last RAM by replacing those SIMMs with
4x8MB units.

High-speed SCSI-2 compatibility is
indeed very welcome news. You can
connect up to seven SCSI hard drives
and other peripherals, such as SyQuest
(hives. Standard equipment includes a
SCSI cable with two connectors, and
you can add more cabling and devices
as needed.

Once the respective cables are un-
tangled and attached and the card is
wedged into your A2000's accelerator
slot, you can install the supplied soft-
ware to tune up the system. The ac-
companying 45-page manual, filled
with enough ransom-note italics and
boldface type to make even a non-de-
signer cringe, is nonetheless helpful,

68 September 1993

giving a good insight into exploring the
wealth of performance options the Zens
hoard brings to the table.

Fierce Performer
When the subject of conversation turns
to 68040-equipped Amigas, perfor-
mance exaggerations and bragging
rights become the norm. That's because
a 68040 executes even the heftiest ap-
plications literally in a flash and .seem-
ingly speeds up all processing operations
exponentially. Only performance-mea-
suring programs can tell the true tale of
the tape. Amiga Intuition Based Bench-
marks (AIBB) 6. 1 reveals some pretty 7 in-
teresting stats. Its MemTest shows the
Zeus-equipped A2000 blazes along 3.4
times faster than the already quick
A4000/040, while speed-intensive Sav-
age and Sieve tests revealed it to be
roughly 1.5 times quicker. That's work-
station territory, folks.

Graphics-wise, the A2000 shows its 16-
bit origins. While the time-honored
Beachball drawing test revealed the Zeus
was roughly 1.3 times faster than the
A4000/040, the board fell on its face with
the Writepixel screen test, which took al-
most twice as long as the A4000. Using
DiskSpeed 4.2 for hard-disk lime trials,
the SCSI-2 hard drive posted directory-
scan and file-delete times in the neigh-
borhood of 30% to 40% faster than my
stock 52MB GVP hard-drive con-
troller/hardcard combo.

In daily use, life with the Zeus board
is fast and fun, though a tad frustrating
at times. No devices seemed negatively
affected by the board, although some in-
compatibility arose with the smorgas-
bord of utilities idling in the back-
ground — something that occasionally
occurs on accelerated machines. Dis-
abling the freely distributable Superdark
program cleared up the ailments, as the
system rarely crashed thereafter. Use of
an error-detection program such as En-
forcer is clearly in order.

Games are out of the question in high-
speed modes; a handy accompanying
program called Switch disables the
68040 and allows rebooting in native
mode for such activities. Overall, the
Zeus is a good investment if you're in
need of injections of data-access speed
and processing pow T er for your old
A2000. Given time, patience, and some
user tweaking (i.e., turning off a few
background tasks), system crashes can
be minimized or eliminated altogether.
— Tim Walsh

Personal Paint 2.1

Cioanto Italia/Haitex Resources, $98

All Amigas.
Hard-drive installable.
Not copy protected.
1.3/2.0/3.0/AGA compatible.
Accelerator compatible.
Minimum system: 512K chip RAM

and 512K fast RAM.
Recommended system: 1MB

chip RAM.

Multi-image format paint program.

What do BBS users, C programmers,
Bridgeboard users, and Amiga artists
have in common? Give them all a copy of
Personal Paint 2.1, and you'll find out.
This new paini/image-processing pro-
gram for the Amiga provides an interest-
ing combination of unique features, with
support for all ECS and AGA screen sizes
and color modes except HAM 8.

DPaint or P Paint?

Personal Paint has many keyboard
shortcuts, menus, submenus, and paint
functions that match Electronic Arts'
DeluxePaint. You'll find brush resizing,
rotation, brush and screen flipping,
stencil, spare screen, and merge in
front/back, among others. Seasoned
DeluxePaint users will feel right at
home. But once past the obvious simi-
larities, PPaint's unique features grab
your attention.

Personal Paint is user-configurable
and easily customized, its European
heritage evident in that it allows Eng-
lish, German, Italian, or user-defined
menus. You can assign keyboard equiv-
alents to menu selections that don't al-
ready have them, and you can modify
existing key assignments and practical-
ly everything else, from default screen
format, to default palette, to menu col-
ors. You can even customize the default
icons for brushes, pictures and palettes,
or have PPaint create picture icons in
up to 256 colors that resemble the pic-
ture files they represent.

Flexibility Features

PPaint accepts GIF, PCX and Amiga
IFF-ILBM images in 2 to 256 colors,
and saves in the same formats. It also
saves an Enciypted format that requires
a user-defined "encryption key" pass-
word to reload the image, thus protect-
ing your work from unauthorized ac-
cess. Programmers will appreciate its
ability to save images in C source-code
format, and there is even a handy
screen-grabbing function. All these fea-
tures facilitate Amiga/PC programming
and data sharing, ancl they provide an

easy way to utilize the wealth of GIF and
other non-Amiga images that are avail-
able online.

Other features include palette merg-
ing, color statistics, color reduction, and
Floyd-Steinberg dithering, plus more
than 30 image-processing functions
such as blur, sharpen, emboss, negative,
watercolor, edge-detect, lighten, and
darken. You can define your own filler
matrices and easily modify existing
ones with the Edit Filter requester. You
can apply all image-processing func-
tions to brushes, to the whole image, or
to smaller user-defined areas such as
rectangles, freehand-draw shapes, or
brush objects. The accompanying
graphic of two boats is testimony to Per-
sonal Paint's excellent remapping ca-
pabilities, producing two nearly indis-
tinguishable images from radically
different palettes.

Special features of PPaint's palette re-
quester include color spreads — based
on either hue or luminance — and
palette sorting from light-to-dark or
dark-to- light. AH pixels of a color can be
flashed on screen to show the locations
of that color in your image. You can
also modify the entire palette at once
with contrast, brightness, saturation,
and Red, Green, and Blue adjustments.

Colorful Tools

The text-editing and font-handling ca-
pabilities of Personal Paint are interest-
ing, too. It uses ColorFonts, and with
AmigaDOS 2.0/3.0 it uses scalable Com-
pugraphic fonts. PPaint even goes a step
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lets you edit font attributes, so even or-
dinary fixed-size bitmapped fonts are
scalable right in the requester window.
This enhances its "non-destructive" text
editing.

Text does not become pan of the screen
image until the text entry function is
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typing, instead of clipping and resizing it
afterward as a brush. For printing your
images, the program supports PostScript,
Encapsulated PostScript, and Preferences-
supported printers.

Personal Paint's tools include a very in-
teresting Brush Shear tool that's like a
combination of Shear ancl Perspective.
The cui"ve tool produces Bezier curves
Continued on p. 72.

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with movable end points and two control
poinls to adjust the curve's shape. Yon can
have up to nine brushes stored in memo-
ry, all easily accessible from die tool menu.
PPaint offers an RTG option for Re-
targetable Graphics, which lets you avoid
use of the Amiga blitter when working
with a graphics board if you desire to.
The 182-page manual is well written and
organized, extensively referenced, and
goes into quite informative explanations
of functions. Its detailed descriptions of
matrices and how to modify them was
something I'd been wanting to know, but
didn't know where to look. Now, I might
even try modifying my matrices in Art
Department Pro. For the .Amiga begin-
ner, the manual provides a whole sec-
tion on menus, gadgets and icons, re-
<|iii'siiTs. screens, windows, and a whole
range of basic information on computer
operation.

Test Results

I tested Personal Paint on three svstems:
an Al 000 with 5I2Kcbip/2MB fast RAM
and AmigaDOS 1.3, a 68030-equipped
A2000, and an A-1000/040. GIF and PCX

Personal Paint 2.1: Different palettes,
similar images.

files were cross checked by loading and
saving to and from Personal Paint on the
Amiga and, using CrossDOS. on an MS-
DOS machine.

The only problem 1 found was that
Personal Paint has a serious conflict
with ParNet. If PPaint is running, or
has been run and quit, any program.
including PPaint, that tries to access the
Net: device will immediately lock disk
I/O, requiring a reboot to get the system
back. Because I relv heavily on ParNet

to communicate between the Amigas in
my studio, this single problem prohibits
me from making any practical use of an
otherwise excellent paint program.

Although Personal Paint has no ani-
mation capability and does not support
HAM, HAMS, or 24-bit images, its
many other features give it the poten-
tial to become a popular paint package,
particularly among BBS users, pro-
grammers and Amiga users who also
work with non-Amiga graphics.

The ability to load, paint, and save
GIF. PCX, and IFF images without the
need for conversion utilities i.s ample
reason for many users to acquire Per-
sonal Paint. Its impressive remapping
and text-handling capabilities and good
basic list of image-processing features
make it an especially valuable addition
lor the Amiga artist. The option of per-
sonalizing and custom-configuring
PPaint is an idea I hope more pro-
grammers and developers will use. If
the conflict with ParNet were remedied,
Personal Paint would quickly find a
prominent place among my most-used
graphics programs.

— Fred Hurleau ■

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By Peter Qlafson, AW Games Editor

(Editor's Note: With this issue, "The Game Preserve" adds cover-
age of CDTV and A570 products for the burgeoning CD-based
games market.)

The Labyrinth

CD-ROM 1.3 •

It was the music that hit me
first, and "hit me" isn't just po-
etic license. It didn't so much come out of the speakers as out
of the air around me. It reverberated in my chest, it resonat-
ed in my heart, and reminded me of every movie that had ever
scared me witless — Diabolique, The Haunting, or some forgot-
ten childhood matinee. The game's on CD, but the sound that
graces The Labyrinth (Electronic Arts) technically isn't of CD
quality. (It just sounds that way when piped through an am-
plifier.) It's that old 8-bit Amiga sound — but in arrangements,
and in a setting, that give it enormous moment and presence.
That goes for the game as well.

This graphic adventure by Terra Nova Development is one
of a handful of forthcoming Amiga games expressly designed
with CD in mind. (At press time, it hadn't been assigned a list
price or a specific release date, but it is expected to reach the
shops by Christmas.) Unlike many of its predecessors, it's not
simply a beautiful bruise of sounds and visions. ExploringThe
Labyrinth is a transcendent experience. Uliile I was there, I
was somewhere else.

Color it gray at the start: Your character is taking a mean-
ingless subway ride home at the end of a meaningless day
when something extraordinary happens, and suddenly you're
no longer there. Or rather, vou're still in the subwav car, but

The Labyrinth features CD-ROM graphics and sound,

it seems, initially, as though the car's been moved to the bot-
tom of a well or to a diving bell. The exit now leads to an old-
fashioned hotel, a movie theater, a 1950s diner, a funhouse
mirror maze, and places that simply dely description. Don't
be surprised to come out the end of an old-fashioned railway
car and discover, not tracks, but boundless sky and a silver
pyramid floating on a cloud. (You move through it square by
square using an icon bar at screen-botton.)

In another game, this pastiche might seem disjointed. But this
is not simply computer-game artwork; in fact, it would not look
out of place in a forward-thinking gallery. HAM mode has rarely i

OK, OK, you're all probably
heartily sick of the ins and outs of
Shadow of the Beast lit IPsygtmsis)
by now, but we're almost at the end
and it would be silly to drive all this
way only to leave you empty-hand-
ed. So here's the denouement.
Good luck.

Before we start in, take a
breather and make certain you have
collected the three artifacts and all
the gold coins from each of the pre-
vious levels. If not, you'll have to
play those levels again. Without
them, you'll be unable to complete
the journey through Nosthomak.

Lots of caution and discretion

CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson

are called for here — especially in the
use of your weapons. But things
start out rather modestly, as is the
Beast III custom. Head right and
shoot the flame-thrower while
ducking under the flames. Then
right again, past the big metal ball
(leave it alone for now), and down
some stairs, The bats here are more
of a nuisance than a threat, but you
can't afford to lose any life-force on
this level, so kill them off quickly
before they do any damage.

Oh, no, more tables' Shoot the

left leg off this one, and push it all
the way to the ledge at the right.
(Don't go over, though; the skull-
and-crossbones means business.)
Push the bookcase to the left until
it's just before the sign, and now
climb the ladder, jump on top of the
shelves, and then up to get the
hammer.

Now, back up the stairs to that
big ball and chain. Use your
shuriken to get it moving — just be
sure you hit it only twice — and then
switch over to your new hammer

to bring it up to speed. Jump on the
ball as it approaches and ride it up
to the ledge on the right. Once
you've disembarked, switch back to
shuriken again and shoot the bail
as it reaches the top of its right-
hand swing. It'll break away from
the chain and— if your timing was
good — roll down the steps. (This
should give you some notion of
what the broken table was for: a
launching ramp.)

Forget about the ball for now,
though. Head right again, and you'll
come to a sliding-block puzzle. You
can ignore it without penalty or
play it through if it suits you. (The

A— Wow! Exquisite. A must for your games library- C — Meets expectations. Good, solid, performer.

B — Great fun. Plenty of entertainment value here. D — Disappointing. Lots of room for improvement.

F— A real stinker. Don't waste your time.
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been used in games (save by Bill Williams), mainly due to issues
of speed, but in Labyrinth it helps create just the right dream-
like ethereality. We are in awe of this mystic quality and we ac-
cept it at the same time; the graphics and music fold together
into a kind of strange gameplay in which the central pleasure is
simply being there — a kind of perpetual imminence, a sense of
always being on the brink. My suspicion is that the designers
aimed to keep their audience in a state of continual suspense,
and in that they have succeeded splendidly.

Now, it's a little on the slow side on the CD'IY and A570,
despite almost continual loading, though not unusual for ibis
sort of product. And I suppose it could be asserted that, as one
often hears about CD-ROM products, there isn't all that much
"game" here to complement the superb visuals and souics. It's
true that the great part of the 220MB of data on this single
CD is occupied by designer Brad Schenk's glimmering -109b-
color ray-traced artwork and a huge (25MB) looping orches-
trated score. (The actual game engine is comparatively small.)

Btn the emphasis here is on exploration rather than charac-
ter interaction or lllling up the monster cemetery. Each of the
280-plus locations has four distinct views — a trick thai hasn't
been well turned since Accolade's Itrst Elvira game, and never
so lovingly. The "Look" icon turns up an extraordinary mum
ber of splendicl close-ups — right down to the "Exit" sign in the
movie theater and "Do not disturb" signs in the hotel — as well
as a few charming animations. You've never seen an inventory
like litis one — every little object dressed up as if for church —
and of course there's auto-mapping (and more) as well.

The rough instructions that accompanied my pre-produc-
tion copy included this advice on how to win: "Go everywhere.
Look every place. Take anything. Do everything." I didn't
need to be told twice.

This kind of boundless invention and seemingly endless
possibility is what CD-ROM is about — or should be about — and

I enjoyed the game every bit as much as a considerably larg-
er, but less interactive, CD product for the IBM: Virgin's The
7th Guest. Even now, after I've put it aside to write the review,
The Labyrinth continues to enjoy a thick, rich existence in mv
imagination.

It's not just a first step. We're already there. CD-ROM gam-
ing on the Amiga has arrived.

Flashback

1.2/1.3 •*
2.0 •*
3.0 •*
Hard-drive installable.
Off-disk copy-protection.

Don't confuse Flashback
(U.S. Gold import, about S35)
with Out of This World, Yes,
both games are originally from
the same label (France's Delphine). Yes, they both have ex-
ceptionally lluifl animation. And, yes, both evince the same
happy infatuation with elevators, mechanisms, locked doors,
and long drops. Even the stories are broadly similar.

But Flashback is a fast-forward from OO'FVV. Gone are the
earlier game's polygon constructs; they've been replaced with
rotoscoped actors and hand-drawn backdrops. (Thai is, the an-
imal ion has been adapted from live-action footage.) Gone is
the up-close scale; it's been trimmed down by about half, so
that what might have appeared on two screens in OOTYV is
condensed into one in Flashback.

And despite some adventure trimmings — like the "mission"
structure on level two — Flashback is at its heart more of a run-
ning, jumping, and shooting game. By the third level — an
eight-level pyramidal "Running Man"-style game show called
Death Tower — it's virtually all action. That's not a criticism, just
a difference. As an action game, it holds tip extraordinarily
well — much in the manner of Prince of Persia (to which OOTW
is frequendy compared). The animal ion is utterly lifelike— just
watch you]' character change direct ion on the ily. And while

CRIB NOTES

From p. 76.

answer it yields is necessary to the
fishy logic puzzle that follows, and
no critters will sneak up on you if
you do play, so feel free to go nuts.)
Farther right, go down the ladder
and into the crane booth. Basically,
this is a variation on the old cartoon
sequence that shows smaller fish
being eaten by progressively larger
fish. Get the small fish from the bot-
tom of the top-left tank and feed it
to the fish at the top of the bottom
tank. When it's finished, pick up this
fish and feed it to the fish remaining
in the top left tank. When it is done,
get this fish as well and serve it to
the remaining fish in the bottom
tank. Finally, take this last fish and
feed it to the shark in the top-right
tank. Now you're free to pass
through the fish tanks (as long as
you don't jump; the spikes above
are death). Oddly enough, the shark
is the only fish that won't attack
you while you're doing so.

On to the last big puzzle before
the endgame. Up the ladder and to
the right, you'll come to a drop-off,
Fall off it. So this is where the met-
al ball turned up. It's about to prove
useful all over again. Jump over the
ball, head down the ladder, then
right again, and jump over the pit
and onto the ledge. The switch here
turns on the furnace. You can turn
it on now or wait until you get
things down here sorted out.

This should suggest some ideas
to you — one of them being the fur-
nace's rough proximity to the met-
al ball above. (There's also the mat-
ter of the ice blocks off to the right
and a pit-sized spiked block hang-
ing above you and to the right.)

Let's try to put them together,
For starters, switch your weapon to
the hammer, push the furnace as far
left as it can go. Switching back to
shuriken, hit the spiked block above
twice to create a crack in the chain
supporting it. Then, using the ham-
mer again, start jumping and hitting
the spiked block to get it swinging

in the manner of the metal ball ear-
lier in the level. Finally, quickly
switch back to shuriken and hit the
block when it's at the top of its left-
hand swing. It's all in the timing; if
you pull it off, the spiked block
should drop squarely onto the pit
to cover it.

Now, back up the ladder to the
metal ball. Jump over it, and push
it to the right, where it falls into the
furnace. If you haven't already
turned the furnace on, do so now
and stay put on the switch plat-
form. When the ice block has melt-
ed about halfway — to a point just
below the level of your platform —
jump onto it, then right again onto
a ledge, and hit the switch you'll
find there. (This disables a force
field beneath you.)

You're not ready to leave quite
yet. Wait a bit for the molten residue
of the metal ball to cool off, and then
climb down from your platform to
collect the crystal that has appeared
from beneath the ice. Its twin is em-
bedded in a second ice block off to

the right. Weapons rather than heat
are needed to break through here,
and either hammer or shuriken will
do. Just make sure you're directly
under the crystal, which you can
"catch" when it falls free; otherwise,
it'll break and that would be a lot of
work for nothing.

And here, at last, is the end, with
Maletoth himself rising out of the
water to say "how do?" He's diffi-
cult to kill — hope you have some
spare lives — but it's not at all im-
possible, and the solution, when
you think about it, doesn't separate
Beast III much from dozens of oth-
er arcade-adventures. (You'd think
they'd make him scarier, too; this
guy just looks as though he's been
to the well too many times.l Simply
shoot him in the head as quickly
and as frequently as possible, and
with every pass by the big M,
change platforms to make yourself
a less viable target.

Next month, we'll start on Luc-
sasArts' Indiana Jones ft the Fate of
Atlantis. HI

To locate vendors of the games reviewed, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 94.

78 September 1993

GAME PRESERVE

You'll find plenty of fast-paced action in Flashback,

the color-counters may glower at the palette, in the Death
Tower, against a deep-blue backdrop, the graphics take on a
photorealism that put me in mind of Sega's holographic stand-
up video game. The problem-solving situations rarely can be
addressee! by brute force alone; there's almost always some-
thing sneaky and clever in the solution.

Admittedly, something of the original game's intimacy has
been sacrificed with the trimming of the character's si/e, and 1
didn't play this with quite the conspiratorial pleasure of OOTW.
1 wish they'd found a happy medium for the level passwords. Too
close together in OOTW, they're now a full level apart; and some
of those levels take quite a while to complete. Happily, a save
mechanism turns up around mid-level, though this stays in effect
only as long as you keep playing. (OOTW look a lot of heat for
being too small and too easy. Flashback, with seven enormous lev-
els and three dilliculty settings, is neither.)

As a European game, Flashback also requires a Fat Agnus
chip and a boost from a PAL conversion program to run on
an NTSC: Amiga. (The PAL program supplied with my copy
didn't recognize the SCSI controller on my hard drive. How-
ever, Chris flames' superb PD/shareware utility Degrader 1.3
worked perfectly.)

There's a certain amount of sloppincss in here as well. Toward
the end of the second level, the game suddenly dispens-
es with the cut-scene animations (a carryover from OOTW) for
picking up or exchanging objects — even the slock ones used ear-
lier in the game — and replaces them with barren text screens.
("You pick tip the key.") li looks to me as though someone was
in a big hurry to get this out.

That doesn't do much for the consistency of Flashback's
tone, but it's just temporary, and it would take much more than
that to spoil it. Flashback may not be Out of This World., .but
it's still out of this world.

Syndicate

As Bullfrog's star rises, its
game worlds grow smaller in
scale, and our dealings with
their inhabitants become more
intimate. Populous gave us a thousand worlds to conquer, but

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the ability only to influence their people. PowerMonger of-
fered a country consisting of 140 or so slashes of territory, and
whole armies to command in the taking. And Syndicate {Elec-
tronic Arts) draws ns down to city level as the overseer of a team
of" up to four members on clandestine missions: persuade, steal,
assassinate, depopulate with extreme prejudice.

And what cities! Seen from the same God-in-the-clouds per-
spective as the earlier games, they're BtadeRuiuier-like cre-
ations full of institutional buildings, divided by Streets teem-
ing with pedestrians, crisscrossed by catwalks, split by active
rail lines, and adorned with signs and video screens constantly
aflicker with commercials and sometimes static. "That's right:
Be prepared for some bad reception.

The game's set in an unhappy future in which the earth has
been given over to criminal organizations. Your duty is to
bring into the fold territories under rival syndicates by com-
pleting missions within their borders. The choices are limited
at the outset, but as you progress east from the starting point
in Western Europe, opportunities for death-dealing blossom.
You can buy and develop (or find) a host of useful items —
many of them weapons, '["hey start with the standard-issue
pistol and range upward to the Gauss gun, which is essentially
a rocket launcher.

Firing and moving is controlled wholly with the mouse.
(You can move the party members en masse or individually.)
It's a breeze. Do the deed and bring 'em back alive to the evac-
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Conquer rival territories in Syndicate,

and maybe buy some additional tips or map enhancements.
These missions aren't knockoffs.

Ixiok both ways before you cross the streets, or you might get
hit by a passing car. Civilians will flee from you in terror if you
approach toting a gun, police will open fire, and agents of oth-
er syndicates open lire with altogether nastier weapons. They're
busy places and, consequently, scrolling can be a bit rough on
a low-end machine like the 500. (An accelerator — Supra's Tur-
bo 28 — notably improved performance on my 3MB 500.)

There's no one correct path to success. So, for instance, in
a town infested with competing syndicates, I found a rooftop
out of harm's way, spent the first half-hour watching the ene-
mies kill each other oil' and finally toasted the last cluster of
'em with a laser.

The big picture comes into play here. You start the next mis-
sion with the equipment with which you ended the last one.
There's always the prospect for rebellion or sedition in the rear
areas, so you'll need to lake care how you assess taxes. Then
there's the matter of how much to invest in equipment re-
search. (Certain weapons will make certain missions substan-
tially easier to complete.)

If things don't go well, of course, there's always self-destruct
(if you're equipped with appropriate "mod"), which sets offa
spectacular conflagration and burns down am 1 poor soul who
happens to he standing too close. It's worth doing once just
to watch — even if you're winning.

Areas for improvement: The player can have the team mem-
bers use three types of dings — yup, drugs — to enhance per-
formance during missions. Now, I'm no puritan, and I know
this is set in a dark future world, but why drags? (Why not mi-
crochips in the manner of Neuroniancer?) Probably not a
game for impressionable kids of manual-reading age, y'know?

The environment seems to be immutable apart from cars,
trees, and people (which all make very nice torches). Even af-
ter taking the worst punishment, the buildings in my pre-pro-
duction version seemed to catch lire only temporarily, and when
the flames vanished they left behind no evidence of damage.

Finally, I wish there was a cutaway shot while a character is
moving indoors. All we can see from the outside is the char-
acter's number, and this changes the outdoor rules and makes
indoor combat a senseless but often necessary game of" blind-
man's-blulf.

None of which exactly slopped me from playing Syndicate.
It's easily Bullfrog's best — and, importantly, most varied —
game to date.

Crc:e 172 oi Reader Service cafd

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SlJPERFROG

3.0 •

Not hard-drive installable.
On-disk copy-protection.

A "great" game that could sell
Arnigas for kids the wav Super Mari-
oland helped sell the Super IMES. This
production [Team 17, about $35) has
drawn raves in Europe, and I'm not sure the raves went far enough. It's vir-
tually perfect for a game of this type. You control a red-caped greenback
with the heavy-lidded eyes of a Garfield character as he jumps, runs,
springs, and soars through an enormous landscape bounding with secret
areas, delightful specials, and ways to croak. Speed is good for a frog
game, the graphics are spot-on, and overall fun is large. Hop to it: This will
tap into the kid in you.

HlSTORYLINE
1914-1918

Hard-drive installable.

No copy-protection.

Wargames can't be fun, eh? Battle
Isle meets the Great War, and the
combo makes. ..well, it makes for a great war! The massive Historyline
(Blue Byte, about $45) is a refinement of that elegant wargame that allows
for the unique circumstances of World War I — the importance of artillery,
for instance — and it's a peach. Everything that made UbiSoft's Bl stand out
last year {ease of use, good looks, and basic enjoyability) is here, but over
much bigger maps and with more extensive orders of battle. It's also gen-
erally easier to control and sort out what's going on, and the historical ac-
curacy ought to rope in diehards who thought Bl was too frivolous. (It
comes on seven floppies, so I'd recommend a hard disk.)

Lethal Weapon

1.2/1.3 •

Not hard-drive installable.
On-disk copy-protection.

Somewhere on the road between
Electronic Arts and self-distribution,
the US release of an Ocean arcade-
adventure called Navy Seals seems
to have fallen through the cracks. And that was a shame because it was
actually a surprisingly spiffy, involving, and challenging platform game.

All of which is all an awfully long-winded way of saying that Lethal
Weapon {Ocean, S49.95), another movie license, is more or less a clone of
Navy Seals but neither especially fun nor challenging. The most interest-
ing thing about it, apart from the yummy sky and sea, is that it doesn't run
under 2.0 and does under 3.0. Go figure.

When it's not doing sweet stuff in the fashion of Sleepwalker or Epic,
Ocean has a way of grinding out these curiously spiritless, indistinguish-
able licenses, and I'm fraid this is one of them. Find the import of Navy
Seals. Make like Mel Gibson in LW 2, and throw Lethal Weapon in the deep
end of the swimming pool.

A-Train
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1.3/1.3 •

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The ideal shortcut to high-rises
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a whimper, but with the bangety-bang of a freight crossing a switch.
ATCS will prove a real Joy lor the dedicated A-Trainer, bringing everything

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in the game under your thumb via a clean interface very like A-Train's, as
well as six sample scenarios for you to botch. You may even get to see the
bullet train this way. Do the locomotion.

(Note: Maxis may be out of the Amiga market, but its games aren't.
England-based Mindscape International, the label that did Wing Com-
mander, is slated to release conversion of most of the titles, beginning
with SimLife.)

Nicky Boom

1.2/1.3 V

2.0 •

3.0 •
Not hard-drive Installable.
Off-disk copy-protection.

A cute name — perfect for a Paris
cabaret singer, non? — and what a
cute tiny little character! This squash-
the-critters platform is charming light
fare from the French label [Microids, about S35) — a pot-bellied little blond
boy off to save his grandfather — and it will take you back to late-SOs, plat-
form games like Gremlin's Seven Gates of Jambala or Apprentice. Don't let
the diminutive pastoral graphics and copper sky fool you. This may be
sweet, but there's many a clever little trick in here.

about as big as he is, stands teeteringly atop it to avoid unfriendlies, and uses
it to swat anything in his way (some of those things right in the yarbles) and
to knock the teeth out of the largest, most smoothly animated end-of-level
monsters you've ever seen. A classic arcade extravanganza (Core Design
Ltd., about S40).

Proflight

1.2/1.3 •

Hard-drive installable.
Off-disk copy-protection.

This flight simulator [Panavia Tor-
nado, about $40] has been out for a
couple of years in its imported ver-
sion, but HiSoft — an English publish-
er better known for its programming languages — recently released a ver-
sion for NTSC machines. It's very Flight Simulator ll-ish in feel, but with
more graphics (lots of buildings) and features (a nice mission editorl, and
a manual and a half to explain it all. The frame rate is only so-so on a
68000-based machine— it's dandy on an 020 and up— and it's solid and
functional rather than flashy. But it's quite solid. I think you'll like it.

Abandoned Places 2

Body Blows

1.2/1.3 •

1.2/1.3 •*
2.0 •*
3.0-
Hard-drive installable.
Off-disk copy-protection.

Huge beyond telling, satisfying, and
Black Crypt-gorgeous, Abandoned
Places 2 [International Computer
Entertainment , about S35) should
please the RPG crowd waiting around hopelessly for Eye of the Beholder III.
(Stop waiting; it's not coming.) The Hungarian designers have gone well be-
yond the original AP (Electronic Zoo| in graphics and play-
ability, and you'll like the large 3-D window. (But abandoned places? Hard-
ly. They're alive with unseemly critters.)

Unfortunately, AP 2 still has some really annoying quirks, like having to
switch a character to the other side of the party to hit a monster on the
opposite side of the screen — it's called a "diagonal," folks; look into it —
unpredictable disk identification, and the inability to restore from within
the game. (It's also not especially friendly even under Degrader, and is
prone to crash on exit.)

Sink or Swim

1.2/1.3 •*
2.0 •*
3.0 •*
Not hard-drive installable.

Copy-protection.

I looked at a raft of Zeppelin's
rough-hewn budget games some
months back and basically told them
to clear off. OK, you can come back
now, because this full-price puzzley arcade thing (Zeppelin Premier,
about $30) is a little jewel. You are rescue worker, gulp, Kevin Codner —
hey, blame Millenium and its James Pond line — and you're helping the
blob-like "dim passengers" aboard a doomed liner to get around obstacles
to the exit by throwing switches, setting off bombs and such. The Blues
Brothers-style presentation makes this a pleasure to play, and the modest
difficulty helps it become quickly and firmly addictive.

Qualm: It's a mite too short (60 levels) and easy for my tastes, and the
"ocean liner" looks like an oil tanker.

Chuck Rock 2:
Son of Chuck

1.2/1.3 •
2.0 •
3.0 •
Not hard-drive installable.

Copy-protection .

The belly-busting caveman Chuck
Rock has had a kid. The kid is a brat,
but with personality. He cries when he dies. (Sounds like a Lifetime movie.)
He makes goofy faces if you leave him alone. He hauls around a club that's

Hard-drive installable.
Copy-protection.

I've heard that Street Fighter II
[U.S. Gold, about S3S) sold 85,000
copies in Europe last Christmas.
That's a substantial hit on any plat-
form and a huge one on the Amiga, and I recently got hold of a copy to see
what all the fuss was about.

A few weeks later, 1 still don't know what all the fuss was about. This
bashfest — you know, fighting odd-looking folks with different combat abil-
ities in a series of one-on-one bouts — while faithful in a general, painful sort
of way, is pedestrian to look at and arthritic in play when placed beside
the popular arcade machine and even beside the Super NES version (which
is what the Amiga version should have been|.

Now, Body Blows (about S35) is a different story entirely. It's as though
Team 17 had looked at SF II in dismay, and set out to do better. It has. Writ-
ten expressly for the Amiga, BB is fast, gorgeous, and thrilling. (1 ordinarily
can't stand this sort of game, but I played Body Blows for two hours with-
out blinking an eye.)

Be sure to get the just-published version 2, which fixes a handful of
problems and adds new features. The only problem is that it still doesn't
surmount the limits of the form, which is why this is only a B + . (Among
beat-'em-ups, this is a solid A.)

Piracy on the
High Seas

1.2/1.3 •*

Not hard-drive Installable.

Copy-protection.

This import from International
Computer Entertainment (about
S4Q) caught my eye in part because there hasn't been a good Amiga game
about pirates since . . . well, since MicroProse's Pirates! And it seemed to of-
fer a nice range of things to do.

A mirage, I'm afraid. The reality; lovely graphics, little gameplay. It starts
out by having you trade ad infinitum — trucking back and forth between two
islands — until you build up enough loot so the locals tell you what's up. Bor-
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golden chalice — is hokum.

And while there are some Darklands-like dungeons deep in the game,
they're simple treasure hunts, without a puzzle in sight. There's just noth-
ing to this game — except maybe the cannon-fighting sequences — and it
doesn't even support the claimed extra floppy drives. ■

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A. The 1942 Setup disk is a necessity
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with the 1942 Setup disk will. Also
included with the 1942 Setup disk are
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of AGA machines should check with
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Eds. Note: For more information on the
1942 monitor, see "Mass Appeal." p. 28.

Bridgeboard, Anyone?

Q. Based on AW's coverage of the

A2386SX Bridgehoard in the November
'92 issue, I purchased one. It has worked
flawlessly. Well, sort of. For instance, I
can't make the system recognize more than
six hard-drive partitions; nor can I get the
system to recognize n D: drive I created.
Finally, I'm in need of farther information
on the ) 'an US libraries.

Mark E. Roberts
Kent, WA

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overseas), you get a one-year, 12-issue
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the host Amiga, and the hoard might
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Q. / am a new A4000/040 owner who
recently acquired Art Department Profes-
sional version 2.3. The documentation
claims many automated functions available
via ARexx. Flow do I access them? Also, I
installed a Word Sync SCSI controller into
the A4000 so that I could add a tape back-
up to my system. When the controller/tape-
drive system failed to work, tech support told
me to replace the Word Sync with a 2091,
which I did. When that also failed to oper-
ate properly, I found out thai the first
A4000s had Super Busier chips that re-
quired ii motherboard replacement in order
for them to work with the SCSI controller.
Ray Chewier
Latham, NY

A. If you have access to any of the on-
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controller. Commodore officials were
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Buster chip that addresses the SCSI
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word from Commodore, as of this
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for replacing the motherboards on
A4000s with surface-mounted Super
Buster chips. ( )n the bright side, since
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tion, unless they install an incompati-
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James C. Daniels
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DD92: Developer Contains the official Commodore develop-
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Tor youngsters including geography, math, science, and word
games, also indudes Wheel ot Fortune.
FO20: Tactical Game* - MechFcrce: A game thai Simulates
combat between two or more giani robots- Smote wcvcg can't
beg'n id rive you the Fee! Ot pilcimg a 30 - 40 loot tall, fire
Breaihmg, earth shaking colossus thai obeys your every wnrnt.
FD27: Arcade Gamea - TNl disk Is loaded wilh. some greet
games includes. Raceorama a great racing tnr game with ten
dilferonl courses, M niGlasI a helicopter gunship lypd clone,
Shark m the same dass as frcoger. and SBreakout the cnginai
breakout with more.

F03! ! Games! ■ Air Traffic Control - a good ATC siraulafon.
Black jack Lao - a M featured set of card games. CnessTel -
play chess with your friend in distant and remote places with
this game and a modem, labyrinth - a well done to*! adventure
game (like an inlocom game), and MouseTrap ■ a 30 maze
game

FD32: Flight Simulator - An ir.slrumenl simulator tor a DCiO
FD33: Arcade Garnet - Flreddy a Mario Btoihers type ol
game. Gerbiis a target practice game. PipeLime 4 German
interpretation of Pipe Dreams. Iron a light cycles version, and
Wetr&dS a wonderful version of asteroids wi9i a hilarjous twisL
F035: Omega (v 1.3) ■ An outstanding dungeon and outdoors
adventure game in a similar vein as hack, rouge, and moria.

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versions Flay time, weeks

FD33: Games - Cnbbaoe Masiei ■ A great cribbage game and
tulor. Spaces - a well done card came. ChineseCheckers - A

computer version ot this classic, Puiz - a slide piece puzzle
game and construction set

WB105AB: Workbench 2+ Extras #2

This set contains the programs Irat should havO been
included with WB2*. These powerful utilities take full
advantage of the many now cspabttties ttiat am Available
ut Workbeocri 2*. Includes: Toot Manager ■ a worsdertul
utility to add programs to your TOOL men.li, VifUS
Protection - Degrader. Icon - Enhances. Workbench's
"Show AH' to display over 40 distinct icons for diflef&nt
types o! ffes. Bitmap Font Editor. Screen Blanker? - a!a
fractals and splinsrs and swa^rrang bees! Pequesier
Enhancers and CPUBIir Two dis*; set, counts as two.

FD39ASB: Slar Trek. The New Generation ■ Tpjs ^s a com-
pletoly dirle'en; ve'sion oi Star Trek than ihal found on FDt 2
This one was created by the German author Tobias.
Excellent!!! Counts as two disks Requires 512k
FD50: Submarine Game - Sealance one and a halt years In
the making mis is an outstanding submarine !act<cal game.
Commercial quality, highly recommended.
F057: Arcade Garnet - Indudes 2 truly commercial qualify
games MegaBail. an Arkanoki-ish c/ame, features 5 musical
sttxes and addictng gameplay. Gravrty Anack ts a psycnadel-
lic trip through several ditlerenl *or^ds^*ach different
FDS9; Game Potpourri - Xenon III is an aEmost e^act done ot
the commercial game ot Ihe same name, a great shooternup
Ciossword will take IisEg o! words $ automatically generate
word-search puzires for any Epson compatible printer
FQ60: Garnet - in Nebula, race over a 3d world lo destroy
enemy Installations. Inierteron, a great Or Msr.o clone
Enigma, is ri a game o* puErle?

FD61: Games - Solitaire; great graphics, plays two versions.
Klide: an interesting p'ece ot eye candy. Extreme Violence; 2
player kill or be killed game. VATC: A Tetris done with Anifica3
Intelligence. Genesis: create realistic 3d fractal worlds.
FDS2: PomPom Gunner. An extremely smooih and well done
World War It gunner simulaiicn. Requires 1 megabyte of
memory.

FOH: Games - Wiiiys QucS! ■ a "O/eaf 50 level game with
great graphics. Cubus ■ a 3-dimensional Tews typo game
(rotate and move in 3 dimensions;. Husker Du - Colors and
patlom rather than shape m ifiis Telris-esque game: 5 screens
and 3 levels of difficulty. Requites Fat Agnus (1 Meg of Chip]
FD67: Arcade - Includes Llamatron a well-done Robotron'
clone. Hate is a "lertilic" Zaxxon clone wilh multiple
level l acjiss and smooth diagonal scrolling. ..a 10!
FD69: MindGames - Had enough of shoot-em up games?
Relax and lei these 21 games eierdse your mind instead Ol
your wrist

FD73: Arcade Series - Intruder Alert! la a MULTI-level
"Berserk* done. Feaiutes smooth gameplay, great graphics &
digiliied sound Irt

FD74: Arcade Series - RingWar is an "Outer Limits'' done
with vectorized graphics. MotherLcde is a "Lode Runner'
done with so !eve<st In BlrtzTanks. they'ie coming at you from
all diiocnonsr! Ca>] in air stnkes and use your heavy arbiter/ to
survive!

FD75: Arcade Series • Descender is a clone of the dassic
arcade game "Tempest"; complete with veclorned graphics,
Tanx is Ihe classic battle ol Irajedones and 1 inertia Oetween
two fanks—tncredibly well donol Search is a mere game
unlike any other — ■nciuded is a level editor too (Tanx requires
1 meg crvp memory-Fat Agnus]

FD77: Arcade Series - Gataga'92 is a clone Ol tne arcade
game with several gameplay enhancements -with smooocth.
sharp graphics, it's better than the Original! Pharaohs Curse is
a clone ot the original C64 classic. Dplomacy is a beautifully
computerized version ot the Avalon H II heard game-conquer
or be conquered !

The AmigaWokld "Best-Of" Set!

F0H5ABCD. Amiga World's Best - These tou- -
tain the /rates* pd gamM o! '921 Indudas M-
Moria. MtnetiOtJ. Potng. intruder Ater;. DoIuao PacWan.
Rocky and Super ArttHery {see Dec "92 AralgaWoddj Foi-
rliuk set, counte as throe

FDB1 : SuperGames ■ Soma of /to best games-Donkey Kong
is berter than Lne ongnat wnftarr ertra tevefl Frani,ic Freddie
and TratlBtazer are both fasl*paced arcade games Mad
Bomber .s the dassic game ol "Kaboom" redone with an Amiga
ILarB Ah of these games are excelenl 1
FD62: Intrepid - In Ihe Arctic ice. you control a tank on a mis-
sion lo rescu-3 hostages m this superbly aaFted Amiga original.
FD34: Games! Deluxe PacMan is better than Ihe original--
20 * mazes, special "pc-wer-ups" with ouslantJJng graphics.
ThinkAma/na is the classic game ot con cent rati on -wuh beaut--
fully drawn H Res images

Workbench Disks /

WB4:Te1ecommunicallon - This disk contains several exceE-
hM pd communicat'on programs Access t J2. Comm 1,3d 4
Handshake 2.12a. See also WB1D2 & WBllS.

WB5: Fonts #1- 35 bitmap lonls Also included nre five
PageStroam fonts.and ShawFonl - a font display program
WB6: Fonts #2 - ShowFon! allows you lo quickly and
painlessly view ail 256 characters m a typical font. Includes
targe AmigaOos s/slem fonts (many up to SSpts),
WB7: Clip Art - This desk is leaded with black and whde- dip
an. Art includes, trees, wasches. tools, US and State maps,
and more
WB9: Icons - Truly a muliliude of various types and kinds.

Also includes IconM-aster. iconLab. and oltiers great utilities 10
help generate icons

WB12: Disk UlllHlet Th>s great disk b loaded with wonderful
util-ties tor everything including making c-st labels, disk cata-
loging, disk optimnirg, disk and file recovery archive and orga-
nising, and all sods of iilo manipulation. A musi have!
WB13AB: Primer Drlvera and Generator ■ ovur 70 different
drivers (including HP LaserJet 3 & 4!), also includes a printer-
driver generator. Two disk set counts as two.
WB15: Business - This disk contains a spreadsheet, a
database. apfCjecmmg management program and financial
analysis {stocks),

WB1*; Word-Text Processors - This disk contains the best
editors. IncludeS.TextPlus {v2 2e) a fulF featured word proces-
sor. Dme(vt 35) a great programmers editor with stiong macro
feature s.TaxED(v2.B)' an enhanced Emacs lypo ediior, and a
spell checker.

WB22: Fonts #3 - Several more great lonls These, like Ihe
oiher font cisks work great with Dpamt and WYSIWYG word
processors.

WE23: Graphics and Plotting - Plot, a 3D mathematical
function plotter. Can plot any user defined tund5on. BelSurfS *
produce awesome pictures of objects one could turn on a
lathe Can also map IFF image liles onto any sjrtnce lhat it can
draw Now compal.b e wilh mosi 3D packages and VSaeen ■
makes a vmual screen anywhere

WB25:Educatlonal - On this disk a/e two programs that can
generate maps b! dttenng types. World Data Base uses the
CIA s data base to generate detailed maps ot any entered user
global ccordinalas. Also Paradox a great demonstration of
Albert Einstein General Theory of Relativity.
WB27; Nagel - 26 Patrick Nagel pictures ol beautilul women.
WB29: Graphics and Sound ■ This disk has several different
Mandelbrot type programs producing stunning graphics
includes, W and el Mountains - a realistic terrain generator,
Fracgen - generate recursive fractals from user input.
Mandelbrot and Tmandel - two fast mandelbroi generators,
also MoStra - Ihe besl IFF display program to date Sound • a
great IFF sound player, will play anything
v. 1 urn. circuit Board Design ■ several terrific routines tor the
eleclrgnic enlhusiast. including PCBlool - a circuit board design
tool, LogicLab - circuit logic tester, and Mead [1 261 a well
done new release o' this PD CAD program, now comes with
predrawn common circun components fc insertion into

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WB3S: 3D Graphics ThLS disk contains 3Fon!s - Full vector
font set lor use with 3d programs, FontMaker - make 3d fonts
from any system font, Make3DShaipe - creale 3d shapes from
any image. DumplolFF ■ create 3d animations preserves pal-
lot. WorldSd - a demo o! a Front end (or use with DKiJRender
VVB3S: Graphics - On this disk are several programs lo create
stunning graphical images including, MPath - creates swirling
galaxy images. Roses - produce art unlimited number of varia-
tions of images thai a symmetrically similar to a rose, SimGen -
display those spectacular images as part ol your workbench,
and RayShade - a very good raytradng program, create your
own beautiful 3d graphic models wlh this one!
WB37: Educational - Educasional games and puzzles mat
cover math, geography, spelling, and books. Ages G - 15
WB38: Plotting and Graphite • Plofxy JS a powerful lull lea-
lured plotting package Used Oy marry colleges and universi-
ties H>ghly recommended Plans - a incredibly well done
Computer Aided Dialling program, very lull featured
Tesselator ■ a program ihal helps generates fantastic looking,.
recursive M C. Ecsher type pictures.

WB41: Music - MED an incredibly well done, full leatured.
music editor. Create your own stunning music ditecily on your
ihe Amiga Similar lo SoundTracker but better, Very powerful
easy lo use program. Version 3,20 -compatote with WB2-
WB43: Business. - This disk contains AnalytiCalc - piObably
the mosi powerful spreadsheet program on tf-o Amiga A lull
featured spreadsheet with many features expected in a com-
mercial package. Req. 1.2 MB

Special Product!

QT1: The A64 Package - A very complete
Commodore 64 emulator. Supports any CPU and is
fuily dompalrble with WB1 ,3 & 2.O. This: version
includes a special adgpjor that will allow you to con-
ned your 64's 1541 di^k drive to your parallel port ol
your Amiga for total emulation. Two disk sel, counts
as two. Special price $49,915 . including hardware

WB45: CHp Art ■ HghRes dip art with Ihe tcllowing molifs -
embellishments [borders, dodads ,..), people. £ transportation.
WB*7; Clip Art - Hues dp art- Molifs - hair, drafting, summer.
anurials and macfood.

WB18" Clip Art ■ Hires Clip art Motifs - Holidays, music, medi-
cal, and misc.

WB50: Animation ■ Seven ol the best euro-style animations or
"Demos', including - SDentitic 45t. subway, sunnde. thtstde-
;■■,'.:. tnighl, waves, and woow

WB53; Graphics - Raytraong programs generate absolutely
stunning realistic locking planes, rockets. buildLngs... and Sur-
real Images. C-Lighl is iTie most powerful EASY-TO-USE ot
1 s krnd we have s^* - ^ to date This is easily better, and more
full featured, than simitar commercial programs costing in me
hundreds of dollars Also, sMovie - a full teal-ured video text
tit far similar 10 ProVideo, Broadcast Tiller. Great video
scrolling, wipes, special effects, and more...
WB54; Printing - Tfiis disk contains several routines 10 help
with the Chore Of printing Includes Gothic - Fnally a Banner
printer lor the PD 1 Pr ntStudiO a well im planter tea al purpose
on n tar -utility with a /ery comfortable graphic interface and
many advanced features. Ula - with ease, print A$CH files to a
PostScript printer, and more.

WB55: Application - XCopylll - a full featured disk copier,
make backups ot copy protected ritEfcs, RoadRouie - find the
quickest route from one city lo another, highway description
included. Diary - a diary program like "Dougy Houser M.D', Cal
• a calendar program. Megman - a database tailored for arti-
cles and publications.

WB57: Animation - This disk has several "Dema" style ani-
mations. Including. Bluer, tolly. SunS. vertigo, vortex, and
xenomorph

WBG2; Midi Utilities - Several useful midi utiilies including.
programs lo transfer to and from several muS'C piograms to
midi, a midi sysex handler, a mdi recorder with timebase, dis-
play midi into, file sequence player, and a few scores.
VYB63; Disk Utilities <3 - Several higNy recommended pro-
grams to aid in removing duplicate tries f*om yrjur naid dnve.
performing file backups. Binary editing, fast formatting, file
recovery, disk track recovery, and forced disk validation ol cor-
rupt disks.

WBfjS: Icons #2- Lot s ol naal Icons Also, several wonderful
programs thai to let you create your own icons, modify and
manipulate icons and info structures

WBG9: Music ■ 90 minutes ol classical and modem electronic
music for you Amiga

WB75: Music - over 100 instruments files ■[ inst) and sample
sound files | ss;

WB79: Home A Business Accounting ■ includes Ckoacct -
the mosi CBmplete checkbook accounting program going.
LCDCalc - this well done calculator has a very laige display

anc operates from the keyboard or mouse. Mileage master -
monitor your automobile mileage with this mileage log
Grammar ■ a grammar checker, and Woridbme ■ find OJt what
time rl is m up to SO global Olies

:DF: Font Set 'lm ejection cunttttna ov#i W

nei 3- ot

am a.1 *. These ronis will output to any tasei pr?nt-
■naUtx ptir-iat wif: -s faggies, tfiajAa to eytfiaa

v^ry pra-!ooking. 5 (US* set, CM Ts ss -!-
WBBt: Great Applicationt - DataEasy a very eas^ to me
database program. Don t let the ease of use tool you. ff*s is a
very lull featured database program mctudmg full printer control
for address labels and mail merge applications Also indudes.
TypgTul a good typing tutor, RLC a lull lealuiod Inael punter.
Banner, a mulll-fonl banner makei. and Budget a home
accounting in a program. Highly recommended.
WBB2: Animations - Four full length. we*l done "movie" style
animaiions Including. Coyote. Juggler II, GnostPool. &
Mecharux. 2 disks, counts as 1.

WB93: Workbench 1.3 Extras *2 Contains the unites that
Commodore should have shipped with the Amiga; VirusX4_0.
Snap. FixOisk (recover corrupt* deleted files). Disk Optimizer
(floppy A hard), Machill (scteen blanker, hotkey, mouse accel .
macro, clock unlity). GOMF ta ourubu star land PrlntStudio.
WB95: Checkbook Accountant 2.1 • Definitely commerpal
grade: wa /e seen many checkbook programs and this is the
best Full tjudgeting. transaction recording 4 report generation
WB36: Oupers - Contains Xcopylll & No which wilt oackup
copy-proiected ptogtams FreeCopy removes copy protection
tram several programs, and: SuperDuper will crank-out fast
Am gaDOS copies.

WB99: Lilestyles - Includes AGehe— family iree program that
tracks up 10 $00 ppjcpl>> marriages etc. Landscape is a CAD
program to create garrfenslandscapes. Loom simulales an B
harness loom: experiment with pattern design with Instant
loedback

Memorex blank disks-3 11 " DSDD

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plhcr farciga jdd S.S0 fci.

WB102: Telecommunlcitlont - Conlams (he programs
NComm 20 and VT1M-29B. Zmodem protocols, XPR proto-
col Support, full VTI00 emulafjon. NCornm's script language is
so powerful it can create a full-featured BBS system.
WBlOfi: Home Manager - This «s a great aU-m-one address
boo*, with an autodaler notepad lo-eo 1st appointment sched-
uler heme inventory database and phone number dialer.
WBI08: OotaMED ■ Th 5 preaklhrough program doubles your
Amiga s sound capabilities from 4 channels to an ear -popping
S channels! All the renound editing capabilities of MED plus 4
mote channetsl If you Ihought your Amiga sounded good
before .you arnt heard nurhin'yeil

WB-rOfl: VtrseWlte ■ Display, search and print The New
Tes'ament

WB113: SldJI -Why pay 40 bucks for adVectory utkry. when
this one wilt do it all plus much more! A truly prof ess us rial -cal -
iber program. Sid l was our besl, now compleleiy rewritten,
Sid 2 will astound you.

V7B114: Fonts #4 - Contains 36 bitmap system fonts.
WB1 15: Teleoommun I cation - if you have AmigaDOS 2.04+
and a modem, then this, is THE program lor you Term totally
conforms to the User Interface Style Guide lor 2 04, has an
ARexx port, and supports an popular fi!e-tian$ler protocols
through XPR libraries We wsh all programs were this good
WB1 1 6: Databates - Th.s is what you've been waiting fori
Contains 5 uniquely specialized database programs far track-
ing: Videotapes, CD's. Magazine Articles. Comic Boo<s and
Trading Cards!

WB120; Grinder - a complete graphics conversion package
Ihal supports GIF's. JPeg, Neochrome, Degas, PCX. Targa,
TIFF. HAM-E and IFF formal pictures An invaluable toot for all
de5ktop-videographers and desktop publshers.

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il tw pomr-Wttoi ■ --irougji to th» c

ritt in tjsHiwMin Bonya.' A!.»:o included are 16-
cotor fcorss Jo replace every Icon m yoai Z Q • VVorkbsnch ■
WB 121 : ProPageS Enhancer - This disk contains over 40
"Genies" for use with PioPage 3.0. including useful ones like
Make Pie Chart and Resize Text to U Box ta name a few Also
:nctLdes strj^ured & bitmap clipail for un»pje borders a most
nave for il PPage 3 users.

WD - 22: System Optimizer - KCcrrntioOily enhances your
system, gives memory meters, mouse keyboard enhance-
ments, online timers plus marry oihers..,too numerous id list I
REorg will optimne hard end llcppy-disks For a big speed
increase HOMem will allow you to use up to 2 megs o' hard-
dnve space for virtual memory! {Req &80Z0* w.MMJ) All
programs require 2 c-

WBI23AB: Flags of the World - same as wai?4. but tor
Workbench 1.3, Req, 1MB 2 disk sel. counts as two.
WB124: Flags of the World - Two modes: click and learn or
a game lo test your knowledge. GjeaJ graphics-lanlastic
learning tool Has curtent Russia S Yugoslavia republics
Rug Workbench 2 O. \ 1 MB RAM

Dev Disks/

DDS4: Comptesslon - This dsk is loaded with all ol the best
file compression programs and aids tor the Amiga Many of the
prog'ams can be used by the new user. Indudes Arc. Lhaic.
Lhwaip. Pkax. PowerPacker a must have by all, Zip. Warp,
and Zoo.

0D71AB: c Compiler - This disk contains DICE. Matthew
Dillon s lull featured, powertu C compiler & erwuonmeni. 2
disks, counts as 2

DDftfi: The Programmer ■ includes GadToots and REQToois
which will allow you io create your user interfaces and then the
program wJI aulomalically generate "C" source code or
Assembly code. Requires, and writes code lor, AmlgaD052+.
DD89: UEdll - Probably Ihe most powertul lexl ediior ever
written for ihe Amiga. Previously commercial, now oublic
domain Req. 1 MB

Video Disks/

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VD5: Modeling - This demo, Vertex, allows you to creale 3-D
objects without using the abstract X. V and 2 views, loads
Sculpl-3D/4D, Turbo Silver, Imagine. LlghtWave. GEO and
Wavetront formats. MaglcTween will meiamorphasize any
two pics and animate the "in-between" Iramas.
VOG: 3D Ob|ectt - Contains 20 objects all In Imagine formal.
Indudes a complete Amiga 3000. space station and much
more 1

VQB: CompuGraphic Fonts- Contains 2 Dipart- style fonts
and 4 actual typefaces for use with WB2+ and its Fountain utili-
ty. Great for Des+ncp publishing or tilting.
VOID: Imagine Enhancer- iCoons and ISL supplement the
object and scene editors
VOlli Imagine Enhancer - T;D converts imagine objects to

OFF. NFF. VQRT, ReyShadO. M1F. DXF and POV lormats

Video Toaster
At the Ballpark

&2L

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The season opener be-
tween the Los Angeles
Dodgers and the Flori-
da Marlins — baseball's newest
Major League franchise — was
a big day, in more ways than
one, for the Marlins fans. It
marked the debut of both a
major league baseball team
and a major league video sys-
tem to Florida baseball.

As fans arrived at Joe Rob-
bie Stadium, they were greet-
ed by animated sequences,
graphics, and a scrolling mes-
sage displayed on the stadi-

One of the many Amiga video graphics
that greeted baseball fans this season
at Joe Robbie Stadium. Go, Marlins!

urn's two giant video score-
boards: "Welcome to Joe
Robbie Stadium and the
home opener of the Florida
Marlins."

To Video Toaster users, the
effects used in the video were
instantly recognizable. The
video was the work of Toaster
and Amiga professional Joel
Tessler, who, along with stadi-
um personnel, installed and
operated a Toaster-based
Sports Tech fnternational/FX
system in Joe Robbie Stadium
for opening day activities.

Batter Up!

Joel, who has done some
post-production work on sev-
eral highlight tapes, anima-

tions, and graphics for the
Miami Dolphins football
games (see AmigaWorld, Nov.
'88, p. 10), had succeeded —
alter nearly two years — in
convincing stadium officials
lo purchase a Toaster for the
control room. "One of the
most striking aspects of
NewTek's Video Toaster is its
ability to do real-time transi-
tions to incoming full-motion
video at a reasonable price,"
he noted.

Using a combination of
video wallpaper, 3-D graphics,
and embossed art ef-
fects, Joel created a
set of video graph-
ics — including the
Marlins team lineup,
all the National
League learns' logos,
a 3-D Marlin hat, a
baseball diamond,
various text screens,
and related anima-
tions. The tools of
the Hade are pretty
much standard fare
for Amiga pros like
Joel: AD Pro, Image-
master, Vidgen, Pro-
fills, DCTV Paint
and DPaint IV to
produce the high-
quality broadcast graphics,
and Toaster Paint and Light-
Wave, as well as Innovision
Technologies' Montage pro-
gram, to provide squeaky
clean, high-resolution scalable
text in short order.

A Four-Bagger

The task of installing the
Video Toaster involved link-
ing the following equipment:
two live cameras in the base-
ball park, a backup frame
store and CG, a still camera,
four live network feeds, three
U-Matic BVU series VTRs,
and a ten-input switcher. The
complexity of the control
room would "challenge even
the most seasoned engineer,"

Joel noted. The finished
script, created with
AutoMedia's Sports-
Mate, a Toaster-based
presentation program, ln tr| e control room at Joe Robbie
is output to two 40-foot Stadium with team mascot Billy the
Sony JumbotTOnS, as Marlin and Video Toaster professional

well as to hundreds

Joel Tessler. (Eds. note: Joel is on

Game Day

of smaller monitors lo-
cated throughout the the " 9ht)
stadium.

Toaster effects entertaining.
During a typical crowd shot, a

(What follows isJoeFsplay-by^phy fan who suddenly sees his im-

announcement of opening-day ac- age on the screen continu-

lion in the control room): ously tries to center himself

Chip Richards (control inside the Puzzle effect, until
room director) cues camera 1 the last piece makes its way
to get a good shot of the ties- over his face! The Toaster is
ignated singer for the Nation- also used by major advertis-
al Anthem. Following the an- ers. For example, Ryder uses
them and after the ceremonial a truck-wipe, American Air-
first pitch, the plate umpire lines employs a plane-wipe,
yells, "Play ball!" Chip cues me and Tropicana features a
to set up our first effect from pour-wipe.
a shot of Marlins fans on cam- Joel is working on other
era 2, followed by a still store effects, too, and credits the
of the leadolf hitter. I choose Video Toaster's ability to
the hemispheres effect, which personalize wipes with en-
spins a still store ofthe batter hancing the enjoyment val-
over the fans. ue of stadium events. For ex-

The still store stays parked ample, some of the action
on the jumbo screen, while ac- from the bleacher brigade
tion begins on the field: includes launching a cush
"Strike one! Strike two! It's a ball — from a slingshot — into
line drive!" The batter rounds the crowd. Joel is creating a
first base, and scampers on to slingshot-wipe with Toaster
second. Chip yells, "Replay! Vision just for this routine.
Replay!" Scott Quinn, replay Joel has also created a Billy-
director, cues up the replav on wipe, to reflect the antics of
VT1, and I click on VT1 PRE- Billy the Marlin (the team's
VIF.Won the Toaster. "Rolling mascot),
and Hying in," says Chip. I
click on the TJR1-ON crou-
ton. Chip flies in the instant Oh, yeah, on opening day,
replav. "Freeze and flying the Marlins won, 4-2, and
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San Diego, CA 92121

Boston, MA 02 114

58 Cheniiu de la Justice

2180 Las Palmas Drive

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Entertainment Ltd.

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925 Stewart St.

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Madison. WT 53713

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805/545-8515

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Dreamworks Video Prod.

2554 Lincoln Blvd.

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WordPerfect Corp.

Asimware Innovations

Pheonix, AZ 85044

Marina Del Rev. CA 90291

B 53, Rte. Lotbiiiierre

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602/893-3988

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Hamilton, Out.

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L8K 5W4 Canada

Electronic Arts

KarmaSoft

314/424-5596

416/578-4916

1450 Fashion Island Blvd.

2-109 Poplar Drive

/.eppelin Games

San Mateo, CA 94404

Fort Collins, CO 80521

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BIX

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303/490-2939

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Grass Valley, CA 95945

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800/356-8863

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Shillor Park. IL 60170

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708/678-7183

& Software

Some entries in the table

Aktienstrahe 02

938 Quail Street

dial accompanied our

D-4330 Mulheim-Ruhr

Epson America

MacroSystem

Lakewood, CO 80215

article "The PC

Gennany

20770 Madrotta Ave.

17019 Smuggler's Cove

303/238-5555

Connection." (July '93,

Torrance, CA 90509

Ml. Clemens, MI 48038

Canon Computer Systems

800/289-3770

313203.0095

Psygnosis

p. 35) apparently didn't

123 Kasl I'aularino Ave.

675 Massachusetts Ave.

connect with reality.

Costa Mesa, CA 92628

Expansion Systems

Maxis

Cambridge, MA 02139

Vortex's Golden Gate

800/848-4123

L 1862 Osgood Road
Fremont, CA 94589

2 Theatre Square,
Suite 200

017/497-5457

-1H6SLC is S899 (not

Commodore Business

510/656-2890

Orinda, CA 94503

Radical Eve Software

S9 19.99 as printed), the

Machines

510/254-9700

Box 2081

3S0SX version is $499

1200 Wilson Dr.

Fred Fish

Stanford, CA 94309

(not S539.99). and the

West Chester. 1'A 19380
800/662-6442

1835 E. Belmont Drive
Tempe, AZ 85284

Mesa Graphics

909 East 49 1/2 Street

415/322-6442

ATonce Plus is $169 {it's

Austin, TX 78751

Realsofi

not discontinued!).

CompuServe

Gcmstone Group

512/452-2441

601 North Orlando Ave,

Further, while we noted

6 14/ 157-0802

24Ui Independence Lane,

Suite 103

that both Golden Gate

800/848-8199

Suite 108
Madison, WI 53704

MicroBotics

1251 American Pkwy.

Maitland. EL 32751
407/539-0752

models are Janus com-

Core Design

608/246-8464

Richardson, TX 7508 1

patible, Vortex says they

Tradewinds House

21 1/437-5330

Silicon Prarie

are not. We apoligize for

69/71A Ashbourne Rd.

GEnie

2320 Francis St.

any inconvience these

Derby DK3 3FS
England

401 North Washington
Riickvillc. Ml) 20850

Regiua. SK.
Canada S4N 2P7

errors ma)' have caused.

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Hex Vex

I noticed thai I made some errors in
my article "Put on the Hex" (July '93,
p.43). The opening .statement defining
a virus left out a very important detail:
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Safe Hex International

Visual Aids

I would like to see pictures of all the
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People want to know how the software
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Demo of Courtesy

I would like to respond to Ron
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market is considerably smaller than the
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I thought I might be

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halve the distance again? Is there a
group in Lancaster or Palmdale? I
have no way to know. I suggest that
once a year, you should put out a list of
all UGs that have sent their addresses
to you, and some other month each
year, put out a list of all retailers who
have sent their addresses to you.

Gejje Schneider
Ridgecresl, CA

News Flash

I was flipping through the 50 cable-
stations in my area when I came across
an Amiga system request on channel
13. It was a Workbench 1.3 screen
notifying the user: "Not a DOS Disk in
Unit 0." I was stunned. This channel is
called Prevue and normally broadcasts
a split-screen program where the up-
per half is ads and movie previews,
while the lower half is a scrolling TV
guide for the current day. I called
Dimension Cable and asked them who
operated the station so I could find out
more about the company. The repre-
sentative could only tell me that they
purchase the service from a company
in Oklahoma and that some other
Amiga enthusiast had alreadv called
with a solution to their problem. Ap-
parently the station is automated or
someone would have noticed the error.
I was relieved to find out that someone
else had seen this on TV because I
thought I might be having flashbacks
from my 1 .3 days.

Ed Martinez
Mesa, A7,

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96 September 1993

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